PHIL 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Local Anesthesia, Electric Current
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Common answer when asked where the mind resides: experience vs reality, philosophy of mind, philosophy of mind in relation to science. Neuroscientist wilder penfield: famous for the discovery of surgical treatment for epilepsy, worked on a 12 years old boy by the name of r. w. The patient has followed many ways in treating his epilepsy but to no avail. The patient was under local anesthesia while conscious on the ot so there is less side-effects of the surgery as well he could see the response of the patient. Before operation, boy was stimulated with electrical probes where penfield thought of possible causes of seizure. Slowly he moves towards different part and the boy had a reaction at one point saying the robber is coming after me . Then, they decided to cut into his brain and remove part of the brain that triggers the seizure: vivid experiences, circular triangles (hallucination) are ones of the symptoms.
