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Originally posted by menjo2000
Oh mother of God, the ATS babes are going to hate me for this one.
I was pondering one day, and it hit me, if all the men in the world died off, women would not be able to recreate more men, not even through cloning, as they would need the X chromosome. Since all the men are gone, there would be no source for the X chromosome.
Now if women died off, we would be able to clone more women, as men have both the X & Y chromosome.
But you are wondering about this whole "Men are the Source of Self Consciousness or the Soul..." thing. Well if you think about it, the woman's egg is not a sentient object. it's a mass of cells that floats through a chemical stream and ends up, here or there, depending on which way it drifts through the fallopian tubes. HOWEVER... the sperm makes a conscious effort to seek out the egg, granted in an overly primitive way, but the sperm doesn't just float away and just happens to bump into the egg. The sperm actually swims and fights it's way to the egg.
What are your thoughts??
Originally posted by menjo2000
the sperm makes a conscious effort to seek out the egg, granted in an overly primitive way, but the sperm doesn't just float away and just happens to bump into the egg. The sperm actually swims and fights it's way to the egg.
Originally posted by pieman
Originally posted by menjo2000
the sperm makes a conscious effort to seek out the egg, granted in an overly primitive way, but the sperm doesn't just float away and just happens to bump into the egg. The sperm actually swims and fights it's way to the egg.
only 1 in 10 million sperm actually make it, i believe this is because the egg doesn't nag them enough.