As a neuroscientist by training, I was always aware of the separation of mind from brain on the bases of my many clinical experiences doing brain surgery on tumor patients, and removing large sections of diseased brain, afterward noting little or no change in mental function. I can remember one patient in particular with a large, malignant tumor of the right frontal lobe of the brain, very anterior. I decided to do a radical resection and amputated the brain well posteriorly, just in front of the premotor cortex, perhaps 5+ inches backward from the frontal pole. He lost essentially a total of 1/4 of his entire brain matter. The next morning after surgery, I walked into his hospital room, and found him reading the newspaper, with full mental functions, intact intellect, and fluent communications on bedside testing. Nothing had happened to his mind. It was functioning normally despite the fact that 25% or more of his brain was removed. I have also seen this in others with severe frontal brain injuries where gyri were contused and hemorrhagic, rendered nonfunctional, yet with excellent mentation on discharge. Therefore, there is much clinical evidence to support your conclusion. Interestingly, however, in the problem of diffuse head injury or brainstem injury, where there is total loss of consciousness and coma, it appears that the reason for this is that it is neurologically well established that for consciousness to be expressed through the brain as a soul-manifestation, the neuro-electrical circuits of the brainstem and hemispheres must be intact for the expression of it.
, it unfolds daily.
There are no atheists in the next world - even from the atheist’s point of view!
