Tag: Epilepsy (and abstract thought)

Epilepsy awareness concept: human face with copy space. epilepsy or seizure disorder.

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News
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August 20, 2024

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Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

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Epilepsy (and abstract thought), Michael Egnor, Mystery of the Mind (Princeton 1975), Pat Flynn, Wilder Penfield (on abstract thought and epilepsy)}

What Brain Surgery for Epilepsy Taught Us About the Human Mind

_{Michael Egnor continues his discussion with Pat Flynn, noting that neither seizures nor Penfield’s brain stimulation provoked abstract thought} _{News
August 20, 2024

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Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

The claim that we will find a materialist explanation some day, no date specified, means that we never reckon with failure to do so. Read More ›

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News
Date
February 14, 2022

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

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Berkeleian Idealism, Epilepsy (and abstract thought), Featured, Idealism, Joshua Farris (on dualism), Michael Egnor (on dualism), Split brain research (and unity of mind), Thomism, Wilder Penfield (on abstract thought and epilepsy)}

How Does Dualism Understand Personal Identity?

_{Both neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and theology professor Joshua Harris acknowledge weaknesses in their philosophies’ understanding of personal identity} _{News
February 14, 2022

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

In “The Body and the Soul” podcast, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor interviews theology professor Joshua Farris on how a sense of personal identity is preserved (or not) in Aristotelian vs. Cartesian philosophy (both are dualist philosophies; they do not think that the mind is merely a product of the brain). Along the way, Michael Egnor talks about the remarkable way that neuroscience affirms a dualist view. https://mindmatters.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Mind-Matters-News-Joshua-Farris-Episode-2-rev1.mp3 A partial transcript and notes follow: Michael Egnor: Had it not been for neuroscience, which led me to a Thomist view, I would probably be a Cartesian because I do agree that there’s a great deal to say for it. Although my sense of Cartesianism is that the closer we get to Berkeley and Read More ›