Split Brains and Multiple Minds?

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This post on the human brain is from an Intelligent Design site, so I thought you might appreciate a heads up.

When it comes to the brain and the mind (remember that the brain is not the mind, the mind uses the brain), secular scientists have conflicting views on consciousness — the soul, if you will.

In many cases the brain can adapt. People can have brain portions missing and still function because of what is called plasticity. In extreme cases of epilepsy, surgery is performed to split the brain.

Illustration of split and normal brains, WikiComm / Soccernumber1 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Literally splitting the brain sounds like a death sentence. However, the adaptability and (in my view) mysterious ways people can still function with damage kind of offset feelings of alarm for the patients. In fact, most have no ill effects after the surgery. Others may have some that diminish.

Now back to the confusion of secular views.

Make up your minds (heh!), is there consciousness or not? Scientists have wondered if when the brain is divided, one person can have more than one consciousness. Such a question is actually illogical and self-refuting in several ways. Also, instead of treating people like lab rats or pieces of meat, go to the sources and talk to them!

It occurs to me that our Creator designed us to adapt; even the complex organ known as the brain often does so. Also, he gave people minds and expects us to use them. One example of that is to perform startling surgeries to mitigate effects of the fall of man.
Dr. Theodore Schwartz is a prominent Cornell University neurosurgeon. In addition to publishing many scholarly articles, he is the author of Gray Matters: a Biography of Brain Surgery (2024). He’s a very thoughtful guy and his recent essay at Psyche, “What removing large chunks of brain taught me about selfhood”, caught my attention.

Dr. Schwartz: “As a brain surgeon…I’ve severed the brain in two and watched in amazement as my patients wake up feeling like their complete and undivided selves.” (February 17, 2025)

To read the rest, head on over to "Split-Brain Surgeries Reveal Reality of the Soul." The follow-up article adds some impact: "'Multiple Minds' in Split-Brain Patients?