Is the mind just what the brain does or something more? Today, a skeptic counters by saying that promising anecdotes aren’t proof, and science should stay agnostic until convergent evidence arrives. Patients functioning normally after major frontal-lobe resections, conjoined-twin and split-brain puzzles, why many scientists avoid soul-language, and whether near-death data moves the needle on afterlife claims.
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