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Re:Myths about the brain by bonoboTP on Saturday December 25, 2021 @08:48PM (#29688942)
> If you take out the engine - it doesn't run

And there are parts of the brain that you can reliably take out and damage specific things like speech/language or facial recognition.

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Re:Myths about the brain by passivate on Monday December 27, 2021 @08:26PM (#29709235)
Yes and no. The brain is complicated, and we have a lot left to understand about it.

https://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20191119/they-had-half-thei...

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Re:Myths about the brain by bonoboTP on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @12:32AM (#29710795)
Those hemispherectomies were done on children.

Strokes or head traumas can produce very specific loss of abilities in adults.

I am not quite sure why this is being "debunked" now. Perhaps in part as status jockeying, i.e. "I'm ahead of the curve and not stuck with knowledge that was en vogue 10 years ago and all the Discovery-watching plebs has internalized" and in part a strange new dualistic movement that seeks to mystify the brain for some reason, perhaps in service of blank slatism.

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