Tag: Theodore Schwartz

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Michael Egnor
Date
February 21, 2025

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Free will, Neuroscience

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Does Brain Surgery Prove That Free Will Isn’t Real?

_{My fellow neurosurgeon Theodore Schwartz is mistaken in thinking that free will is an illusion. It is quite real} _{Michael Egnor
February 21, 2025

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Free will, Neuroscience}

I offer four reasons that we can know that free will is real, drawn from human behavior, law, ethics, and physics.

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.