https://evolutionnews.org/2025/06/new-bo...-the-mind/
Quote:The Brain Can Be Split, but Not the Mind
by Michael Egnor and Denyse O'Leary
For centuries, we have believed that the brain is the organ of the mind and that consciousness arises wholly from the brain. With the brain cut in half, how would one hemisphere of the brain know what was going on in the other hemisphere? How could a person really act as a unified individual with the two halves of the brain disconnected?
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Despite his severed brain, he moved his arms and legs normally, his vision was normal, and so was his speech. In fact, the only thing different about Sam — aside from the bandage swathing his head — was that he was no longer having major seizures. And he certainly seemed like a single, unified person … He knew that surgery had permanently split his brain into two separate brains, but the only effect he actually noticed was that his seizures were gone…
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
~ Carl Jung
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~ Carl Jung
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