John Lorber’s classic findings that some people, with no obvious disability, have a severely different brain geometry due to severe hydropcephalus apparently also translate to other primals. The results from the article linked to below has also been published in Nature.
https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/01/22...rmal-life/
I have a hard time seeing how the implications of this discovery really supports the dualist narrative. John Lorber’s findings have sometimes been used to support the notion of consciousness being located outside the brain. But if this is true, should we then also believe rats are consciousness? How do their external consciousness differ from our external consciousness? Do they have NDEs? I believe this further underpins physicalism even though neuroplasticity is a grand mystery. Which ‘agent’ orchestrates that functions can relocate to other areas of the brain?
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https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/01/22...rmal-life/
I have a hard time seeing how the implications of this discovery really supports the dualist narrative. John Lorber’s findings have sometimes been used to support the notion of consciousness being located outside the brain. But if this is true, should we then also believe rats are consciousness? How do their external consciousness differ from our external consciousness? Do they have NDEs? I believe this further underpins physicalism even though neuroplasticity is a grand mystery. Which ‘agent’ orchestrates that functions can relocate to other areas of the brain?