Brain_Project_(31729245655) Type post Author Michael Egnor Date April 1, 2025 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , anesthesia, brain, brain hemispheres, brain syndromes, brainstem, cerebellum, cognition, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, hemihydranencephaly, hydranencephaly, hydrocephalus, immortality, Karina Kofman, Michael Levin, mind, neurons, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Research, souls, terminal lucidity, thalamus, The Immortal Mind We Can Learn About the Mind from Damaged Brains Michael Egnor April 1, 2025 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 6 Now we have solid neuroscience to show that the theologians and philosophers were and are right. Read More ›
Brain_Project_(31729250445) Type post Author Michael Egnor Date March 9, 2025 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Alan McComas, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, atoms, behaviorism, Benjamin Libet, brain, breathing, concept cells, conception, consciousness, eliminative materialism, functionalism, galaxies, glaciers, heartbeat, hippocampi, hydranencephaly, identity theory, Justine Sergent, machine, molecules, neurons, neuroscience, perception, pineal gland, planets, pseudoscience, René Descartes, Roger Sperry, Scientific American, soul, trees, Werner Heisenberg, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places Michael Egnor March 9, 2025 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 8 If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t. Read More ›