JDG wrote:
>
> Moreover, what you really mean is "capable of being biologically separate".
>    I don't think that the word "independent" really applies to newbies -
> even without considering the role of incubators, respirators, and IV's in
> the process.   Moreover the <entity> is not actually separate until birth,
> what you really mean is being capable of separation.
>
The <entity> is separate even before birth: topologically, the <entity>
is totally separate from the <entity's host>. An intestinal parasite is
more attached to its host than the <entity> to the <entity's mother>.

Alberto Monteiro

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