that_punk_guy wrote:
Parasite has negative connotations but it is technically correct.
Yes, the technical term is correct. A developing baby inside its mother is also a parasite.
Any ideas about this blinking/smiling thing? Could that by caused by electrical stimuli from the healthy twin?
If the second head is fully functioning, then you should think of it in the same way as a terminally ill person kept alive by a life support machine... in this case the life support is provided by a human being.
Personally I think that conciousness develops quite late on in a babies development out side of the womb, ie your first memories... so the question of wether it is concious of not is a mute point... the question is wether it is capable of conciousness, in which case I would say that it probably is, though it will have little ability to communicate.
