They learn pathology only from textbooks; many complete their medical training never having seen a real brain destroyed by a real cerebral hemorrhage.
Serum 111 in A Clockwork Orange rewired Alex's brain, destroyed his free will and damned him to an eternal purgatory of existential and biological nausea … Maybe the drugs really don't work.
Psychological continuity theorists will have little hesitation in answering that A-B is the same person as A. A person can function fairly normally with much of their brain destroyed.
Most of the test subjects will have no symptoms yet of the degenerative disease that ravages the brain, destroying memory and thought.
He found that removal of the cerebral hemispheres, at the front of the brain, destroys will, judgment, and all the senses of perception; that removal of the cerebellum, at the base of the brain, destroys the animal's muscular coordination and its sense of equilibrium; and that removal of the medulla oblongata, at the back of the brain, results in death.
Both mad cow disease and chronic wasting disease are believed to be caused by aberrant proteins, called infectious prions, which affect the brain, destroying tissue and leaving it with sponge-like holes.
The disease roams around the brain, destroying first what makes us human – memory, judgment and personality – and then what keeps us alive.
People on ventilators in intensive care units, their brains destroyed by trauma or disease, their hearts still going strong, may have been breathing, taking in nourishment, excreting waste, and healing from infection, but, at least in the opinion of doctors, they were dead — "heart-beating cadavers," as bioethicists came to call them.
Surely, this kind of stuff must be addling our brains, destroying our critical faculties and rotting our moral fibre, you might well think.
There we have bad proteins accumulating in the brain and destroying brain cells.
What Harris believes, along with neuroscience in general, is that if every brain was destroyed, mind would no longer exist.
