Tag: Concepts vs. percepts

A secret garden back door with a whimsical outdoor retreat.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 22, 2026

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Bill Newsome, Concepts vs. percepts, corpus callosum, Featured, Michael Egnor, Split brain research (and unity of mind), Yair Pinto}

Do People With Split Brains Have Back Door Communications?

_{Some neuroscientists think that split brain communications can thus be explained that way. Michael Egnor disagrees} _{Denyse O'Leary
May 22, 2026

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

The simpler explanation, he says, is that percepts, perceptions travel through axons. Conceptions don’t travel through axons because they’re not material.