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    Not all human beings come into existence at conception. — Carmelics
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    Not all human beings come into existence at conception.

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    • 1.Adam does not survive twinning, meaning twinning produces two new human beings (Barney and Claire).
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    • 2.Barney and Claire come into existence at twinning, not at conception.
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    • 3.Therefore, some human beings come into existence at twinning rather than conception.
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    References to identity in this debate come from objectors to this argument, who apply the argument from fission to a real life version of it, namely, twinning. An embryo might split any time generally before the two-week point in fetal development, and those two embryos could develop into fully formed infant twins. The question for the advocate of the above argument to consider is, in such a case, what happens to the original human being, the embryo we will call Adam? There are only three possib
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