"He presented no arguement as to why he thought that this was not mere reflex action . As someone with only a minimum of medical knowledge , I personally can not tell the difference between reflex action and a true sense of pain . That is true for most of us and seems to be true for this physician . I am left with having to trust scientists to distinguish between the two and scientists seem to agree that one needs a sufficiently developed cerebral cortex in order to register pain - which does not happen until the start of the third trimester ."
"Well , it seems to me that if you have a reflex it means you have an at least partially developed and functional nervous system which would tell me that you can feel pain ."
"He presented no arguement as to why he thought that this was not mere reflex action ."
"Well , it seems to me that if you have a reflex it means you have an at least partially developed"