If a human have a heartbeat, it is alive; True or false?
A simple "yes" or "no" will suffice.
Answers:
True.
No. Death is defined as a flat set of brain top. And in the zygote or blastocyst, or fetus, on the other side of "life", none of these have a nervous system, have a feeling nothing, see nothing, and think nought. Only after a fetus can survive outside the womb, is it regarded as human. Up to that point it qualifies only as a parasite.
This is how drug and science define life.
For religious answers, the criteria is different.
So it rather depends upon your demanding slant in your views... scientific or religious.
False, or No. Your choice.
This is not an either-or give somebody the third degree. I am surprised.
technically...no...a beating heart means one has a functioning pump. the party can be brain dead. if "alive" means having purpose or significance in life, then look around you...i bet you can find oodles people with brain activity and a heartbeat who would consider themselves "dead"
False.
no.
crappy that you don't want more answer than that. No Fun
False
Inconclusive.
Only have a heartbeat is not a sure sign of life. It is accepted that what makes a character a human resides in the brain. If the heart is kept pumping by mechanical means (or brainstem), and within is no brain activity, that person is dead.
no.
False.
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True.
No. Death is defined as a flat set of brain top. And in the zygote or blastocyst, or fetus, on the other side of "life", none of these have a nervous system, have a feeling nothing, see nothing, and think nought. Only after a fetus can survive outside the womb, is it regarded as human. Up to that point it qualifies only as a parasite.
This is how drug and science define life.
For religious answers, the criteria is different.
So it rather depends upon your demanding slant in your views... scientific or religious.
False, or No. Your choice.
This is not an either-or give somebody the third degree. I am surprised.
technically...no...a beating heart means one has a functioning pump. the party can be brain dead. if "alive" means having purpose or significance in life, then look around you...i bet you can find oodles people with brain activity and a heartbeat who would consider themselves "dead"
False.
no.
crappy that you don't want more answer than that. No Fun
False
Inconclusive.
Only have a heartbeat is not a sure sign of life. It is accepted that what makes a character a human resides in the brain. If the heart is kept pumping by mechanical means (or brainstem), and within is no brain activity, that person is dead.
no.
False.
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