
Why Pioneer Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield Said the Mind Is More Than the Brain
He gave three lines of reasoning, based on brain surgery on over a thousand patientsMichael Egnor points out that Penfield offered three lines of evidence: His inability to stimulate intellectual thought during brain operations, the inability of seizures to cause intellectual thought, and his inability to stimulate the will. … So he concluded that the intellect and the will are not from the brain. Which is precisely what Aristotle said.
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