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COMMENTARY: Contemporary Western cultures insist consciousness resides exclusively in our brains, but an abundance of recent scientific research indicates otherwise.
Medical teams at six research centers asked questions of 241 unresponsive patients with catastrophic brain injuries. A full 25% showed evidence of consciousness. If we do the math on this, one of the authors suggested that 100,000 people may well fall into this category in the United States alone. (photo: Triff / Shutterstock)
The startling findings of a new scientific study, indicating that many patients in so-called “vegetative states” actually remain conscious, confirm that the brain is a curious organ.
It is even more curious when we look into how different cultures throughout human history have understood it. The ancient Egyptians, for instance, thought that the brain performed the relatively mundane task of cooling the blood. Indeed, when they mummified the body after death, they discarded the brain as apparently unimportant for the afterlife.
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The startling findings of a new scientific study, indicating that many patients in so-called “vegetative states” actually remain conscious, confirm that the brain is a curious organ.
It is even more curious when we look into how different cultures throughout human history have understood it. The ancient Egyptians, for instance, thought that the brain performed the relatively mundane task of cooling the blood. Indeed, when they mummified the body after death, they discarded the brain as apparently unimportant for the afterlife.
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The Mystery of Consciousness: New Study Challenges ‘Brain-Death’ Narrative
COMMENTARY: Contemporary Western cultures insist consciousness resides exclusively in our brains, but an abundance of recent scientific research indicates otherwise.
