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To: js1138; betty boop; Phaedrus; desertcry; Alamo-Girl; balrog666; PatrickHenry; unspun
Interesting read on some modern discoveries regarding the human brain.

http://khouse.org/articles/technical/19990201-229.html
801 posted on 02/22/2003 12:30:02 PM PST by bondserv
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To: bondserv
Thank you so much for the link!

The part about shuffling around salamander brains and memory returning is particularly fascinating as it runs contrary to Crick's "Astonishing Hypothesis" where he asserts that mind (including the soul) is fully contained within the physical brain. Your linked article said:

Indiana University biologist Paul Pietsch set out to disprove Pribram's theories. In a series of over 700 operations on salamanders, however, he discovered that their learned behavior was not affected by repositioning, reversing, or even shuffling the brain. After recovering from the operation, their behavior returned to normal.2

I recall one of the reviews of Crick's work said that it would be necessary to run many test removing different parts of the human brain to test the theory (and that would never happen in our society.)

807 posted on 02/22/2003 1:32:30 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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