(February 26, 2016 at 5:23 pm)Nihilist Virus Wrote:(February 26, 2016 at 5:11 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: This brings up many questions.
Here are 3 that come to mind. I have asked theists about these examples many times. Not once have I received a coherent answer.
Human Chimeras - in somewhat rare instances, while twins are developing in utero, one twin will absorb the fetus of the other twin. It is unknown how rare this is, because it does not always show up in lab tests.
What happened to the second soul? Does the surviving twin have 2 souls? Does "god" recall the extra soul?
"Personality reset" - sometimes due to brain injury, a person can literally have their personality reset, to the point that they are almost unrecognizable.
I have an aunt that had a brain injury that went from being a sweet, caring person, to a raging, paranoid bitch. My uncle had to divorce her because she was literally not the person he married.
If the soul is responsible for what makes "you", "you", what happened to my aunt's soul?
Epilepsy surgery (hemisphereectomy) - to prevent seizures, surgeons will cut the connection between the 2 hemispheres of the brain. After the surgery, patients will have 2 different personalities.
There are even cases where one personality is a theist, the other is an atheist.
Does the soul get to go to heaven based on the theist side of the brain? Or is it doomed to hell based on the atheist side?
I just looked up "hemisphereectomy" and it appears to be the complete removal of one of the hemispheres, not the disconnection between the two. Is what you're describing known under a different medical term or is your description a less extreme version of the hemisphereectomy?
Aside from that, though, great points overall.
This is what you are looking for. Also, if you search "split brain" on YouTube there is a fascinating video of a man who went through the procedure. [emoji846]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosotomy
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