Learning from Damaged Brains | Evolution News and Science Today
Now we have solid neuroscience to show that the theologians and philosophers were and are right.
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A recent neuroscience research paper provides a fascinating insight into the disconnect between the mind and the brain.
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The paper goes on to describe a number of brain syndromes. They include situations in which people are missing parts of their brains or are supposedly under general anesthesia but are aware of what’s happening. (Yes this happens, but patients rarely feel pain as a result).
They also talk about people with debilitating dementia who have periods of lucidity and normal mental function. Such periods defy the dogma that the brain is wholly responsible for the mind.
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For example, one of my patients is a woman in her twenties who is missing about half her brain because of a birth defect. But she is a completely normal person, bright and successful in life. If you met her, you would not notice anything wrong.
...children with hydranencephaly have no brain cortex and no brain hemispheres. But despite their disabilities (they cannot walk or talk), they are quite conscious.