http://addictionfamily.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:31:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://addictionfamily.com/?p=12&cpage=1#comment-525 Lecture Twenty-Seven Rationality, Problem-Solving and Brain Function (1) » Acquisition Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:52:37 +0000 http://addictionfamily.com/?p=12#comment-525 [...] Scope: Clinical neurology provides extensive support for the central claim of the philosophical materialist; viz., that the psychological, rational, and cognitive dimensions of human life are causally brought about by the functions of the brain. As Lorber and others have shown via PET scans, however, the specific regions of the brain associated with such functions take shape only during the course of early development. If they are damaged quite early in development, the same functions seem to be taken over by surviving areas. [...] [...] Scope: Clinical neurology provides extensive support for the central claim of the philosophical materialist; viz., that the psychological, rational, and cognitive dimensions of human life are causally brought about by the functions of the brain. As Lorber and others have shown via PET scans, however, the specific regions of the brain associated with such functions take shape only during the course of early development. If they are damaged quite early in development, the same functions seem to be taken over by surviving areas. [...]

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