Consciousness: Egnor on dualism: another example (General)

by David Turell , Wednesday, August 01, 2018, 20:13 (2304 days ago) @ dhw

QUOTE: "By studying the boy’s brain and behaviour for three years following his surgery, the team could see which parts of his brain were able to recover. Remarkably, they found that his intellect, visual perception, and face and object recognition skills were all normal for his age."

DAVID: Egnor is right. The mind is immaterial. When an adult has a stroke that destroys part of the visual cortex they do lose part of their field of vision, just as this child, which shows that the mind must depend on the brain circuits. But the boy maintained some higher-level functions It means the mind/soul must use the recovered and existing brain circuits to function.

dhw: I can find no mention here of an immaterial mind. The only hint I can find is in the above, where he mentions intellect, but everything else is concerned with observation of the material world. Yes, the mind depends on the brain for provision of information. If the brain readjusts itself and the mind remains “normal”, then either the mind has reorganized the brain (dualism), or the brain has reorganized itself in order to produce the same “normal” mind (materialism).

I was referring back to Egnor's previously presented article. We know the brain mechanically reorganized as the illustrations show.