Not with a "zap" but with a "beep": Measuring the origins of perinatal experience.
Neuroimage June 1, 2023 Joel Frohlich, Tim Bayne, Julia S Crone et al.
When does the mind begin? Infant psychology is mysterious in part because we cannot remember our first months of life, nor can we directly communicate with infants. Even more speculative is the possibility of mental life prior to birth. The question of when consciousness, or subjective experience, begins in human development thus remains incompletely answered, though boundaries can be set using...