The difference being that I control both my arms. They have independent
control of their own bodies, (head and upper torso).
Do you think that a pregnant woman is two persons? She also has "two
heads/brains/consciousnesses"?
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The twins may be united physically and biologically (which is the point
in
using them as an example of biological dependency in the first place)
but
they both also have their own bodies (head and upper torso) as well.
No, they don't have "their own bodies" at all. They have ONE body. Their
single body happens to include two heads, just like your body includes two
arms (I presume), but it's all the same body.
That
makes them two human beings/persons.
They are two PERSONS by a legal fiction because they have two
heads/brains/consciousnesses. That's all. They are one human being,
physically speaking. One body. One organism. Just like a pregnant
woman.
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