Tag: Roger Sperry

Low Angle Shot in the Operating Room, Assistant Hands out Instruments to Surgeons During Operation. Surgeons Perform Operation. Professional Medical Doctors Performing Surgery.

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Alice Cronin-Golomb, atheism, brain, brain surgery, brain tumor, Christianity, concepts, Denyse O’Leary, hemispheres, left frontal lobe, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, MIT, morality, music, near-death experiences, Netherlands, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Nobel Prize, painting, reason, Roger Sperry, seizures, soul, split-brain surgery, surgery, The Immortal Mind, thoughts, violin, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Abstract Thought Comes from the Mind, Not the Brain

_{John Zmirak
September 2, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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We can cut perceptional abilities with a knife, but we can’t cut reason and abstract thought. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 13, 2025

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, brain, brain activity, Bridget Queenan, Christof Koch, consciousness, human exceptionalism, immaterial reality, language, materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Gazzaniga, mind, music, rats, Roger Sperry, signal systems, soul, spirit, split-brain patients, volume}

Missing Brains and the “Music Model” of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 13, 2025

Arts, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Gazzaniga and Queenan’s new model accounts for missing brain parts but it leaves out the very thing that creates the music. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 8, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alien hand syndrome, antiseizure medications, biotechnology, brain, Broca’s area, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, corpus callosum, Gonzalo Munevar, Hannah Thomasy, hemispheres, language, Lawrence Technical University, Michael Egnor, neuroscientists, Nobel Prize, Roger Sperry, sci-fi, Severance (sci-fi series), split-brain patients, split-brain syndrome, The Immortal Mind, The Scientist}

One Brain, Two Consciousnesses?

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 8, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The idea that split-brain surgery can create two separate minds is immortal — in science fiction. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & 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

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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 ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 16, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, behavior, brain, consciousness, epilepsy, human brain, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgeons, NOVA, Roger Sperry, seizures, split brain, Stony Brook University, The Immortal Mind, UC Santa Barbara, Yair Pinto}

Split-Brain Research Confirms Unity of the Human Mind

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 16, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The NOVA special’s claim is, “The split brain phenomenon suggests that there can be two separated minds, if you will, inside of a skull.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, brain, consciousness, Darwinian mechanisms, Darwinian processes, Denyse O'Leary, evolution, free will, information, Justine Sergent, logic, McGill University, mind, neuroscience, patients, Pharyngula, PZ Myers, Roger Sperry, split brain, The Human Soul, Yair Pinto}

My Question for P. Z. Myers: How Did Human Consciousness “Evolve”?

_{Michael Egnor
October 20, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Human consciousness entails a unique ability to think abstractly — to reason, to think logically, to use language, to do mathematics, to exercise free will. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 22, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, abstract thought, Benjamin Libet, cerebral cortex, Darwinian evolution, Devil, dualism, magic, materialism, Michael Egnor, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, psychiatry, Roger Sperry, Science Uprising, seizures, Spain, Spanish Inquisition, superstition, University of Toronto, Wikipedia, Wilder Penfield}

Explaining Abstract Thought in Materialist Terms: The Horns of a Dilemma

_{David Klinghoffer
July 22, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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What an interesting choice of art. What’s up with that? Goya painted other works on the same theme. Read More ›

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Date
December 13, 2017

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __nedited, Benjamin Libet, brian, craniopagus twins, eyes, ID the Future, Krista Hogan, limbs, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, Roger Sperry, Tatiana Hogan, thalamus, vision, wakefulness, Wilder Penfield}

Listen: What Craniopagus Twins Say about Mind and Brain

_{Science and Culture
December 13, 2017

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Neurosurgery professor Michael Egnor explores the amazing case of Tatiana and Krista Hogan. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 24, 2017

Categories
Botany
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, animals, Benjamin Libet, brain, CBC TV, craniopagus twins, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, documentary, Krista Hogan, matter, mind, neuroscience, physiology, rational powers, Roger Sperry, soul, spirit, Tatiana Hogan, Thomistic dualism, vegetative powers, Wilder Penfield}

What the Craniopagus Twins Teach Us About the Mind and the Brain

_{Michael Egnor
November 24, 2017

Botany, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Tatiana and Krista Hogan's shared and individual powers of mind are just what Thomistic dualism predicts. Read More ›