Tag: Yair Pinto
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.
Split-Brain Research Confirms Unity of the Human Mind
The NOVA special’s claim is, “The split brain phenomenon suggests that there can be two separated minds, if you will, inside of a skull.”
My Question for P. Z. Myers: How Did Human Consciousness “Evolve”?
Human consciousness entails a unique ability to think abstractly — to reason, to think logically, to use language, to do mathematics, to exercise free will.