Tag: Gray Matters (Dutton 2024)

A team of surgeons performing brain surgery to remove a tumor.

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Michael Egnor
Date
February 20, 2025

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Gray Matters (Dutton 2024), Justine Sergent, Split brain research, Split brain surgery, Theodore Schwartz, Yair Pinto}

Does Surgically Splitting the Brain Make One Person Into Two?

_{A prominent neurosurgeon writes of his “amazement” at discovering that the patient with a split brain is still a single individual} _{Michael Egnor
February 20, 2025

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Unity of self after brain splitting is not surprising. Each of us is a physical creature with a single spiritual soul. It is immaterial and can’t be severed.