(cont'd from yesterday's post)
If you literally are your brain, like some say, what hope would there be for a child born with only half of a brain? A brain surgeon in the video below told her parents that there was little hope for her. But twenty years later, she is a vibrant young woman, functioning normally.
The neurosurgeon was at that time a materialist, like so many. It's not that he made a conscious choice, but that worldview dominates in our culture and you just pick it up from school and media. Over his professional experience of doing 7,000 surgeries, he changed his mind.
He believes we have souls or immaterial minds, and they use the brain. As Neil DeGrasse Tyson says, mapping of the brain shows that the brain does control movement, sensory perception, emotion, and memory. But no part of the brain has been shown to control abstract thought (like doing math or understanding history) or the free will.
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