Skibummer, fooling whom, exactly?:"This is similar to the way I stated it when dwa asked the question. Looks like it is quite understandable to most everyone here."

Hardly. I asked you if a a z/e/f was even an animal, and you merely curtly replied "no".

"Noetic" is fairly meaningless in unravelling this "scholarly" semantic inquiry, and you used no such word as "noetic", Ski.

And back to the original question posed at TT abortion, is a zygote/embryo/foetus animal, vegetable, or mineral? Broad categories, for sure, and with fuzzy edges. However, I think a z/e/f is essentially very safely within a category matching an animal.

If not in an animal category, then what, exactly?

Okay, puzzle me this, is a tapeworm an animal, or a vegetable? Is Dolly the cloned sheep one or two sheep? Are identical twins one, or two?

"Main Entry: no·et·ic
Pronunciation: nO-'e-tik
Function: adjective
Etymology: Greek noEtikos intellectual, from noein to think, from nous mind
Date: 1653
: of, relating to, or based on the intellect

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"Main Entry: animal kingdom
Function: noun
Date: 1776
: a basic group of natural objects that includes all living and extinct animals — compare MINERAL KINGDOM, PLANT KINGDOM