BS 184 Mark Solms, author of "The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness"
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Consciousness Is Affective
The strongest piece of evidence for that is the finding of fisher and colleagues in 20 15, where they looked at a large number of human coma cases. All that's required for coma in human beings is a two cubic millimetre ano ugis - basically an area the size of a match head. You only need that much damage to obliterate all consciousness in a human being. And then you add to that the sort of evidence i've just been talking about, like i said, about the deep brain stimulation of these nuclei and observing the responses you get are intense affects felt by these patients. Then there you have it, that consciousness in itself comes from the brain stem. Because
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