Terminal Lucidity Points to Indestructible Personhood

abstract thought, brain, brain function, communication, consciousness, death, Denyse O'Leary, emotions, free will, Human Identity, ID The Future, materialism, medical literature, Medicine, memories, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, movements, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, physicalism, reason, seizures, sensations, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, Threshold
Why would the human mind sometimes appear strongest when the brain is weakest? We begin a two-part conversation discussing the phenomenon of terminal lucidity. Source
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New Book, The Immortal Mind, Out Today — The Brain Can Be Split, but Not the Mind

anatomy, bone, brain, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, Denyse O'Leary, EEG machine, epilepsy, legs, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgery, pain medications, recovery room, seizures, skull, split-brain surgery, surgery, vital signs
Even when the brain is split in half, many important aspects of the mind remain unified. Thus, the mind is something that the brain isn’t. Source
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What 1,000+ Brain Surgeries Taught About the Mind

brain, Christof Koch, consciousness circuit, David Chalmers, epilepsy, materialism, mathematics, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, music, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgery, Pat Flynn, philosophy, promissory materialism, seizures, Stony Brook University, Wilder Penfield
Michael Egnor continues his discussion with Pat Flynn, noting that neither seizures nor Penfield’s brain stimulation provoked abstract thought. Source
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