Author: Michael Egnor
Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places
If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t.
“Multiple Minds” in Split-Brain Patients?
The scientific obsession with “split minds” is an artifact of our materialist preconceptions about neuroscience.
Split-Brain Surgeries Reveal Reality of the Soul
This is not only the perennial teaching of the great religions, but the evidence of the best neuroscience.
What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?
A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be.
The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo
A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization.