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Conundrum: Split Human Brain But Unified Perception

1500 papers later, current research suggests that a non-materialist approach to the neuroscience of the human mind is quite viable
Researcher Yair Pinto summed it up: In split-brain, patients, perception is split, but consciousness is unified. Read More ›
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Does the Mind Have a Specific Location in the Brain?

A rabbi asks neurosurgeon Michael Egnor how consciousness can exist without a place in the brain
The conventional assumption today is that consciousness has a material source. Yet no one has found a place where it lives in the brain. Read More ›