Tag: Split brain surgery

Digital illustration of a brain split into blue and red hemispheres with a glowing connection.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 4, 2025

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Christof Koch, Dual consciousness concept, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, Split brain surgery}

Neuroscientist: Brain Surgery Can Create “Two Conscious Entities”

_{Dr. Egnor, who has done split-brain surgery himself, dismisses neuroscientist Christof Koch's claim} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 4, 2025

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Egnor: Consciousness is not the kind of thing that can be split, and there’s no evidence that one person can ever become two people. Read More ›

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

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
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. Read More ›

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. Read More ›