Split brains: no headache for the soul theorist.
Split brains that result in two simultaneous streams of consciousness cut off from each other are wrongly held to be grounds for doubting the existence of the divinely created soul. The mistake is based on two related errors: first, a failure to appreciate the soul's dependence upon neurological fun...
| Publicado en: | Religious Studies Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 487 - 504 |
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Dec2014
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