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JurisPrudens
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The soul lives in the entire human body. It does not connect to a particular piece of brain. I am still who I am, the same with You. And although I cannot always control my thoughts and actions, I am still one person, not two or many.
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ProdglArchitect
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Each side of the brain handles specific functions. It may be that these reactions we see in split brain patients are the right brain coping with it’s sudden inability to express itself as part of the cohesive whole of the individual. Consider when you do something like typing, the right and left brains have to work in tandem (at least if you’re typing with two hands.) This means that one side of the brain is determining what to write, communicating that intent to the other side of the brain, and then working -with- that other side to perform the physical act of typing. This indicates that on a basic level, the two sides of your brain work together. In cases where the brain is split, the non-verbal half of your brain does not suddenly stop thinking. What’s happened is that it’s ability to communicate that thought has been removed. The reaction we see in split brain people may be the right brain’s coping mechanism attempting to re-establish the communication capacity it lost after being disconnected from the left brain. The disagreements that arise are no different from the internal disagreement you have when picking out clothes in the morning, except instead of handling them internally, like a non-split brain would, the “discussion” has to take place physically.
There’s nothing in this to indicate that you are two people, only that each half of your brain makes decisions based on what it perceives to be important. That’s nothing new to science.
There’s nothing in this to indicate that you are two people, only that each half of your brain makes decisions based on what it perceives to be important. That’s nothing new to science.
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dshix
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I watched this video this morning. I very much enjoy CGP Grey’s content, but unfortunately he does, indeed, hold materialist views.
The thing which makes you YOU is your soul.
The fact that your soul uses your physical brain means that imperfections or damage to your brain can, indeed, change the way you think, speak, or act.
However, it does not mean that when your brain is split that you become two different persons or somehow cease to be a whole person. You’re still a whole person, just with malfunctioning or imperfect parts in your body.
We are body-soul beings. Damage and imperfection in the body certainly affects us, but it does not take away from our soul.
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