--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" <compost1uk@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@> wrote: > > > It doesn't contradict anything I've said about consciousness > > anyway. Placing of brain structures is well understood, it > > can be predicted what functions people will lose or have > > difficulty with after a damage to the brain. > > I'm not convinced by your bravado here. On the contrary, > it seems to me that our expectations have been confounded, > not confirmed. > > I am not a brain scientist (and I take it neither are you). > But here we have Scientific American: > > "Neurosurgeons have performed the operation on children > as young as three months old. Astonishingly, memory and > personality develop normally." > > Why do they say "astonishingly"? Or: > > "Remarkably, few other impacts are seen. If the left side > of the brain is taken out, "most people have problems with > their speech, but it used to be thought that if you took > that side out after age two, you'd never talk again, and > we've proven that untrue," Freeman says. "The younger a > person is when they undergo hemispherectomy, the less > disability you have in talking. Where on the right side > of the brain speech is transferred to and what it displaces > is something nobody has really worked out." > > Why do they say "Remarkably"? >
My wild guess is the astral (suukSma-shariira) counterpart of the left side is to "blame"... ;-)
