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Two contradicting theories exist to explain the origins of conjoined twins. The older and most generally accepted theory is fission, in which the fertilized egg splits partially. The second theory is fusion, in which a fertilized egg completely separates, but stem cells (which search for similar cells) find like-stem cells on the other twin and fuse the twins together. (from wikipedia on "conjoined twins")
Please explain your answer.
(BTW, this has happened recently:
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Girl-8-limbs-has-successful-surgery/ss/events/sc/110607lakshmisurgery#/071113/photos_wl_sa_afp/49d0d09f2b805bb9a5ba99b3c53fcaad )
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2007-12-09 16:35:39 · 27 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
there would be one.. it only depends on the brain not the body
2007-12-09 16:37:55 · answer #1 · answered by footballer 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that the how is particularly important in considering the souls of conjoined twins, though from a biology back ground, I think both theories are possible.
If there are two personalities I would say two souls; in the case of conjoined twins that is. In the case of people hearing voices, or "multi-personalities" which is debatable about its existence, I would say one soul with illness.
Conjoined twins are an irregularity, however, there are two vessels (bodies), so two souls. The irregularity or incompleteness would not prevent the vessel from carrying a soul, no more than the body of an amputee.
That being said, there are philosophers who argue that if a person looses their arm, they also loose a piece of their soul. I guess those philosophers might argue that the souls of conjoined twins would also have to be irregular.
However, in the case which you have presented, I don't remember hearing the girl called a conjoined twin. There was either a RARE mutation which some how did not kill her in the fetal state or a twin that never formed that was not full absorbed by the other. Since it was only the limbs duplicated, there is not enough of the body to really consider her a twin.
2007-12-10 00:44:07 · answer #2 · answered by Noota Oolah 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if it's one head and 2 bodies it would be one soul (the other body would be like extra limbs). if it was 1 body with 2 heads, it would be 2 souls. Your soul is pretty much your mind, both the concious brain that animates the body and the subconcious where your dreams, beliefs,etc. come from. So 1 head has 1 brain and therefore 1 soul, while 2 heads would have 2 brains and a soul for each.
2007-12-10 00:46:04 · answer #3 · answered by Miss Understood 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it depends. If it is like one baby with another body that never detached, you may look at it as one person. If there is no independent life in the second and the only support it gets is taken directly from the other body than doctors would probably look at is as a foreign object, possibly like a tumor. I don't think you can really give one overall answer because each case is so different. From the story you posted, it almost looks like her limbs mutated during her gestation rather than it really being two bodies. I'm rambling now, the answer is that you can never be sure.
2007-12-10 00:42:07 · answer #4 · answered by summer 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's a hard question to ask but you'd have to know if its like a Siamese twin or not. in my knowledge 1 whole body of organs regardless of limbs makes one person so if this person has 2 sets of everything id say that it has 2 souls just conjoined at the head
2007-12-10 00:40:21 · answer #5 · answered by shadowxsniper123 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What if the conjoined twins were Aretha Franklin and James Brown? There would be soul enough for eight or ten people.
2007-12-10 03:14:42 · answer #6 · answered by Surely Funke 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Until the other baby die, it was two souls. As the other died, only Lakshmi's soul remains . The other soul is with Jesus. So now only one soul.
2007-12-10 00:56:18 · answer #7 · answered by maranatha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's one soul that a little one with four legs and arms the other one wasn't develop well to be a person so it is not living... much likely they are going to remove
2007-12-10 00:40:30 · answer #8 · answered by Alex 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Souls don't exist... One is a product of his environment and what the brain does sufficiently explains one's morals and decisions. Proof: When "wild" children, children who have been secluded for their entire lives, are introduced to society, they don't know how to behave almost as if they were an animal.
In this case, there is one brain, so technically, what we have is a reincarnation of Shiva, LoL.
2007-12-10 00:40:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
One soul, with two bodies and a head.
2007-12-10 00:39:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
two because the heart is the seat of motivation not the brain..there are two bodies.
2007-12-10 00:52:27 · answer #11 · answered by debbie2243 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋