Tag: Justine Sergent

Multiracial team of professional medical surgeons performs the surgical operation in a modern hospital. Doctors are working to save the patient. Medicine, health and neurosurgery.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 12, 2025

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Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

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Justine Sergent, Sean McDowell, Split brain surgery, Yair Pinto}

How a Split Brain Enables a Unified Mind Still Baffles Us

_{In the comments following Sean McDowell’s interview with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, a viewer asked, are the parts of a split brain still really connected?} _{Denyse O'Leary
May 12, 2025

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Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

We are learning new things about the mind–brain complex every day and not everything is what we expected to find.

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.