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#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil

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The Effect of Removing Half of the Brain

At the top of that person's brain, yes. And likewise, it doesn't matter which half you take out. We know this because there's an operation called hemispheric perectomy in acute cases. It's a cure for epilepsy, which starts in one of the halves. So, this is known. Although neuroscientists can take out bits of the brain, they can't transplant plates into the brain. But I'm sure that will come as they're learning now to implant them. The neurons in the brain are the same sort of thing. Maybe an eccentric but it will come.

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