Split Brain Experiment and the Soul

[The_Flying_Skeptic]

1- i was hoping you'd give it a go.

2- that's an excellent question: i would definitely set aside my materialist world view if an immaterial explanation was more reasonable. i'm not the flying skeptic for nothing.

3- i meant 'go back to 1'

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Here's an abstract http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9738100 I don't have access to their actual studies. It's pretty simple abstractly: Cool the body, use a machine to circulate blood wait for all brain responses (upper and lower) to be 0, fix the problem and then reverse. Albeit most are already experiencing brain problems prior to this stage.

the abstract doesn't refer to any value 'zero': "The use of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest as an adjunct during clipping of complex giant aneurysms shows promise as a treatment for otherwise incurable lesions." they are very precise in saying 'deep' instead of 'complete' hypothermic circulatory arrest.

Regardless if there was indeed a brain death clinicaly then the identity would cease at that point from your perspective. It seems very testable, if anyone's survived actual brain death with a self-identy then the identity doesn't rest solely in the physical brain. Would that be valid?

i don't believe that if someone survives a 'brain death' they must necessarily lose their identity as long as their brain remained intact.