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Martin —
When an embryonic human splits into two embryos,
a new soul is created at the moment that the new
individual exists as an individual capable of receiving
a soul. Souls cannot split, as they are spiritual,
i.e., perfectly simple. The twin whose own the new
soul is, does not have a change of souls, for that
twin did not exist before the embryonic human split into two embryos.
As for chimera, in zoology the result of the fusion
of two embryos or an embryo on another germ cell,
there are no true human chimeras, though there are
persons who seem to contain parts of a resorbed twin.
Where there is no human organism, there is no soul.
Parts of a human organism are not a human organism,
and therefore the person with parts of a resorbed
twin has one soul. The twin, if it was resorbed,
died, and its soul went to God.
Mary Ann
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