Medicine is weird y’all. Looks like you don’t need your.... to Live

[CopiousX]

Brain. At least half of it.





(time stamped)



This some crazy sht if I ever saw it. I’m not sure if we can even use “brainless” as an insult anymore.



And whats really weird is that this white lady is in her damn 30s, with a husband and kids, walking around with half her brain. She even does ballet.




They call it a hemispherectomy





And I personally think we can even fix her arm if we stuck on one of those robo-prosthetics that they working on these days....

 

[feelosofer]

The brain is the most adaptable organ in the human body.

 

[luciddreamer]

Yea Human bodies are pretty resilient, but this is not an average scenario, and may not work the same way for everyone.... And she's not exactly normal functioning, im sure there is shyt she cant do.

 

[Marks]

What if the brain was simply a physical conduit or receiver, not actually the storehouse and center of things we think it is?

 

[thekingsmen]

Title: Science is weird...

 

[Nymbus]

plenty of people walking around without a brain

 

[Paper Boi]

plenty of people walking around without a brain

some of them posting on here

 

[CopiousX]

plenty of people walking around without a brain

What if the brain was simply a physical conduit or receiver, not actually the storehouse and center of things we think it is?

Difficult to prove. You would have to find some mode of communication (em waves/audio/ angels singing/etc) modulating between whatever the source is and the brain. As of now, seems like the brain is self contained.


Another interesting take on your comment would be, what about the animal brains? Do they go to the same conduit you’re implying? What about the trillions of insects with pea brains also? The external storage and processing for such a thing would be astronomical.

 

[east]

this guy lived after getting most of his left brain destroyed Phineas Gage: Neuroscience's Most Famous Patient - An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history’s most famous brain-injury survivor

In 1848, Gage, 25, was the foreman of a crew cutting a railroad bed in Cavendish, Vermont. On September 13, as he was using a tamping iron to pack explosive powder into a hole, the powder detonated. The tamping iron—43 inches long, 1.25 inches in diameter and weighing 13.25 pounds—shot skyward, penetrated Gage’s left cheek, ripped into his brain and exited through his skull, landing several dozen feet away. Though blinded in his left eye, he might not even have lost consciousness, and he remained savvy enough to tell a doctor that day, “Here is business enough for you.”

 

[OneManGang]

THis isn't as deep as a lot of yall are bout to come in here and try and make it lol.

We aren't experts at physiology yet, but we have a pretty good working understanding of the brain. And yes, its better to have your whole brain but the body and modern humans are very resilient

 

[Nymbus]

some of them posting on here

some of them sleep in the governor's mansion

 

[Devilinurear]

Why is this shocking we use to give people lobotomies.

We still dont know how the brain works or what conscious really is. Hopefully one day.