Coldplay . I just don ' t get it ! <| sep |> Wow , a garage SAIL ! <| sep |> That ' s exactly what I ' d love to do . I ' ll know what consciousness is for you . Not really . We both know you already understand these concepts , and are merely playing contrarian to avoid defending your own position . Aside from the fact that we both know you already understand these concepts , we ' ve already discussed as much as well . Are you pretending that we haven ' t already had this discussion ? I ' ll refer you again to what we ' ve already discussed Cogito ergo sum , you think and therefore you exist . That some essential part of the characteristics that allow you to think can be measured in both you and those around you . As an example , we can literally detect the presence of activity ~ mediaBrainfactsArticle % 20 MultimediaIn % 20 S o c i etyjazzmusicianbrainscans . ashx in the part of the brain necessary for conscious thought . That these characteristics are not present in fetuses . They have rudimentary brain activity , but the part of the brain responsible for conscious thought has not developed before 28 weeks 3 into the pregnancy . Therefore fetuses do not think , therefore fetuses don ' t meet the criteria you use to determine if you are a person . They ' re incapable of experience . That if something isn ' t capable of experiencing injustice there ' s no need to ask the question about whether it should be protected from injustice . If something can ' t experience harm , there ' s no need to protect it from harm . That was when you stopped responding . At this point we could keep going around in circles as you pretend not to understand on some level what consciousness , thought , and experience are , despite the fact that another thing we ' ve already discussed is that you don ' t have to understand every single aspect of something , like consciousness , to know if certain essential aspects are missing , but I think we can do better . If it matters at all , I invite you to go ahead and describe any scenario by which you think fetuses meet the requirements for being conscious by any definition . If you think fetuses are conscious by any criteria , you don ' t need a full accounting of every aspect of someone else ' s definition of consciousness to describe it .