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Originally Posted by Joe Durnavich
Grant, how do we know that to be true? What criteria tells us this "sense of self" is intact?
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HenrikOlsen, above.
Hemispherectomies have been carried out in teenagers and adults as well as in small children, so we can talk to them afterwards about such subtle matters as selfhood. Major cortical resections have been carried out in
continuously conscious adults, under local anaesthetic, and we can talk to them
during the loss of brain tissue.
Grant Hutchison