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Personal Identity

Cerebrum

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Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. The cerebrum is the centre for the higher cognitive capacities of the brain², and hence of human and other animal³ psychology⁴.
  2. It is (or they are) one option for the choice of “what we are⁵” on the part of those who hold the Psychological View⁶ of personal identity.
  3. The two cerebral hemispheres are joined by the commissures, and commissurotomy⁷ is a favourite TE⁸, being an alleged case – suitably elaborated – of the fission⁹ of the person¹⁰; which again (allegedly) shows the non-identity of the human person¹¹ and his animal¹².
  4. There is some slackness in the literature where (whole) brain transplants¹³ and (double) cerebrum transplants are not distinguished, and where half-brain transplants (whatever these might be in practice) and single-cerebrum transplants are confused.

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  Further Remarks:
  1. This Note overlaps to a great degree with others, some just noted, in particular:-
     • Brain¹⁴
     • Brain Transplants¹⁵
     • Commissurotomy¹⁶
  2. In the reading lists, I’ve tried to restrict the “outstanding” list to those that describe what the cerebrums are and how they function – to place constraints on the TEs¹⁷. But I’ve been more liberal₁₈ in the “already read” list.

References

• Relevant Works cited above: No items to list.
• For a Page of Links¹⁹ to this Note, Click here.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read²⁰, include the following:-
  • General:
    1. "Bear (Mark), Connors (Barry) & Paradiso (Michael) - Neuroscience", 2002, Book
    2. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Biology or Psychology? Human Persons and Personal Identity", 2003, Annotations
    3. "Dennett (Daniel) - Where Am I?", 1997, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Liao (S. Matthew) - The Organism View Defended", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Mackie (David) - Personal Identity and Dead People", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Madden (Rory) - Human Persistence", 2016, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Murphy (Nancey) - I Cerebrate Myself: Is there a little man inside your brain?", 1999, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Footnote₂₁
    8. "Olson (Eric) - Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem", 2015, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Olson (Eric) - Human People Or Human Animals", 1995, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    10. "Olson (Eric) - Is Psychology Relevant To Personal Identity?", 1994, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    11. "Olson (Eric) - Persistence", 1999
    12. "Olson (Eric) - Psychology and Personal Identity", 1999
    13. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Animals", 2007, Write-Up Note²², Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Souls", 2007, Write-Up Note²³, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Temporal Parts", 2007, Write-Up Note²⁴, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Olson (Eric) - Why We Need Not Accept the Psychological Approach", 1999
    17. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited", 2010, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
• The categorised reading-list below has information on the cerebrum itself muddled together with more philosophical writings. A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Eccles (John) - Global Lesions of the Human Cerebrum", 1997
    2. "Galin (David) - Implications for Psychiatry of Left and Right Cerebral Specialization: A Neurophysiological Context for Unconscious Processes", 1974, No Abstract
    3. "Hershenov (David) - Persons as Proper Parts of Organisms", 2005, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    4. "Johnston (Mark) - Remnant Persons: Animalism's Undoing", 2016, Read = 15%
    5. "Kinsbourne (Marcel) - Asymmetrical Function of the Brain", 1978, Book
    6. "Madden (Rory) - The Persistence of Animate Organisms", 2017?, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
    7. "Olson (Eric) - The Remnant-Person Problem", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    8. "Parfit (Derek) - We Are Not Human Beings", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 38%
    9. "Russell (Robert John), Murphy (Nancey), Meyering (Theo C.), Arbib (Michael A.) - Neuroscience and the Person", 2000, Book, Read = 1%

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• For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder²⁵.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 18:

• And liberal in the “outstanding” list where the “usual suspects” are concerned.

Footnote 21:

• This maybe ought to be categorised as an “anti-soul” view.

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Table of the Previous 7 Versions of this Note:

Date	Length	Title
20/09/2022 11:24:00	3632	Cerebrum
11/04/2022 00:01:26	3251	Cerebrum
11/02/2021 11:29:46	3006	Cerebrum
12/09/2020 13:16:19	2410	Cerebrum
20/06/2018 17:16:48	4522	Cerebrum
10/04/2017 23:38:24	1824	Cerebrum
04/07/2014 22:46:34	1018	Cerebrum

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Cerebrum	Brain

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Animals	Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Brain	Brain Transplants	Commissurotomy
Fission	Human Animals	Human Persons	Note Links Explanation	Olson - What Are We? Animals
Olson - What Are We? Souls	Olson - What Are We? Temporal Parts	Person	Plug Note Apologia	Psychological View
Psychology	Thought Experiments	What are We?	Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Brain Transplants, 2, 3, 4, 5	Commissurotomy, 2	Olson - What Are We? Animals, 2, 3	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4	Reduplication Objections
Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2, 3, 4, 5	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Thesis - Current Stance	Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11	Transplants
Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

To access information, click on one of the links in the table above.

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism and its Implications	Paper	2	Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Review of 'The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self', by Raymond Martin and John Barresi	Paper		Yes
Corcoran (Kevin)	Biology or Psychology? Human Persons and Personal Identity	Paper	2	Yes
DeMyer (William)	Neuroanatomy	Book
Dennett (Daniel)	Where Am I?	Paper	2	Yes
Eccles (John)	Global Lesions of the Human Cerebrum	Paper
Flower (Michael J.)	Neuromaturation and the Moral Status of Human Fetal Life	Paper
Hershenov (David)	Countering the Appeal of the Psychological Approach to Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Hershenov (David)	Persons as Proper Parts of Organisms	Paper
Hershenov (David) & Taylor (Adam P.)	Dualism, Panpsychism, and the Bioethical Status of Brainless Embryos	Paper
Johansson (Jens)	Animal Ethics	Paper
Johnston (Mark)	Remnant Persons: Animalism's Undoing	Paper
Liao (S. Matthew)	The Organism View Defended	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Yes
Lockwood (Michael)	When Does a Life Begin?	Paper	2	Yes
Lowe (E.J.)	Review of Peter Unger's - 'All the Power in the World'	Paper	2	Yes
Mackie (David)	Personal Identity and Dead People	Paper		Yes
Madden (Rory)	Human Persistence	Paper		Yes
Madden (Rory)	The Persistence of Animate Organisms	Paper	2
Medina (John)	The Clock of Ages - Why we Age; How we Age; Winding Back the Clock	Paper		Yes
Noonan (Harold)	Animalism versus Lockeanism: Reply to Mackie	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Human People Or Human Animals	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Is Psychology Relevant To Personal Identity?	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Persistence	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Psychology and Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26	Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Remnant-Person Problem	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Why We Need Not Accept the Psychological Approach	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Yes
Parfit (Derek)	We Are Not Human Beings	Paper	2
Popper (Karl) & Eccles (John)	The Self and Its Brain	Book
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern	Paper		Yes
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Functionalism and Personal Identity - a Reply	Paper
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Thinking Animals Without Animalism	Paper
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain Transplants	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Commissurotomy	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Reduplication Objections	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Transplants	Paper		Yes
Zimmerman (Dean)	Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited	Paper	2, 3	Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Baars (Bernard), Banks (William) & Newman (James)	Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Baars (Bernard), Banks (William) & Newman (James) - Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness	1%
Baker (Deane-Peter)	Alvin Plantinga	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Baker (Deane-Peter) - Alvin Plantinga	9%
Bear (Mark), Connors (Barry) & Paradiso (Michael)	Neuroscience	Book - Cited	Bear (Mark), Connors (Barry) & Paradiso (Michael) - Neuroscience	Yes
Buzzi (Giorgio)	Correspondence: Near-Death Experiences	Paper - By Subtopic	Lancet. Vol. 359, Issue 9323 (June 15, 2002): 2116-2117	Yes
Corcoran (Kevin)	Biology or Psychology? Human Persons and Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Petrus - On Human Persons, 2003	Yes
Dennett (Daniel)	Brainstorms - Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	43%
Dennett (Daniel)	Where Am I?	Paper - Referencing	Dennett - Brainstorms - Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, Chapter 17, 1978	Yes
Eccles (John)	Global Lesions of the Human Cerebrum	Paper - Cited	Popper & Eccles - The Self and Its Brain	No
Galin (David)	Implications for Psychiatry of Left and Right Cerebral Specialization: A Neurophysiological Context for Unconscious Processes	Paper - By Subtopic	Baars, Banks & Newman - Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness	No
Gasser (Georg), Ed.	Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death?	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Gasser (Georg), Ed. - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death?	96%
Gray (Peter)	Psychology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Gray (Peter) - Psychology	2%
Gray (Peter)	The Neural Control of Behavior	Paper - By Subtopic	Gray (Peter) - Psychology, Chapter 5	No
Kinsbourne (Marcel)	Asymmetrical Function of the Brain	Book - Cited	Kinsbourne (Marcel) - Asymmetrical Function of the Brain	No
Liao (S. Matthew)	The Organism View Defended	Paper - Referencing	The Monist, Vol. 89, No. 3, Coming into Being and Passing Away (July 2006), pp. 334-350	Yes
Lockwood (Michael)	When Does a Life Begin?	Paper - Referencing	Lockwood - Moral Dilemmas in Modern Medicine, 1987	Yes
Lockwood (Michael), Ed.	Moral Dilemmas in Modern Medicine	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	29%
Murphy (Nancey)	I Cerebrate Myself: Is there a little man inside your brain?	Paper - By Subtopic	Books and Culture 5/1 (Jan-Feb 1999), p. 24	Yes
Noonan (Harold)	Animalism versus Lockeanism: Reply to Mackie	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly, 2001, Vol. 51 Issue 202, p83, 8p	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem	Paper - Referencing	J. Fonseca and J. Gonçalves, eds., Philosophical Perspectives on the Self, Peter Lang 2015: 21-40	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Is Psychology Relevant To Personal Identity?	Paper - Referencing	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 72, Number 2, June 1994, pp. 173-186(14).	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Olson (Eric) - Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	16%
Olson (Eric)	Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	16%
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity and the Radiation Argument	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 61, January 2001, pp. 38-44(7).	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Psychology and Personal Identity	Paper - Referencing	The Human Animal, September 1999, Chapter 1, pp. 7-21	Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper - Referencing	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 2 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Brains	Paper - By Subtopic	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 4 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Why We Need Not Accept the Psychological Approach	Paper - Referencing	The Human Animal, September 1999, Chapter 3, pp. 42-72	Yes
O'Shaughnessy (Brian)	‘Blindsight’ and the Essence of Seeing	Paper - By Subtopic	O'Shaughnessy - Consciousness and the World, 2000, Chapter 15	No
O'Shaughnessy (Brian)	‘Translucence’	Paper - By Subtopic	O'Shaughnessy - Consciousness and the World, 2000, Chapter 4	No
O'Shaughnessy (Brian)	Consciousness and the World	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	O'Shaughnessy (Brian) - Consciousness and the World	No
Petrus (Klaus), Ed.	On Human Persons	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	73%
Popper (Karl) & Eccles (John)	The Self and Its Brain	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	2%
Puccetti (Roland)	Brain Bisection and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 24:339-355 (1973)	No
Puccetti (Roland)	Multiple Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 54.3, 1973, 203-215	No
Puccetti (Roland)	The Conquest of Death	Paper - By Subtopic	Donnelly (John) - Language, Metaphysics and Death: A Metaphysical Reader (First Edition)	33%
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern	Paper - Referencing	Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction, 2009, Chapter 2	Yes
Smith (Quentin)	Consciousness - New Philosophical Perspectives: Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	Smith & Jokic - Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays	Yes
Smith (Quentin) & Jokic (Aleksandar)	Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Smith (Quentin) & Jokic (Aleksandar) - Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays	15%
Steineck (Christian)	Brain Death, Death, and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	KronoScope, Volume 3, Number 2, 2003, pp. 227-249(23).	No
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Cerebrum	Paper - Referencing		Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Plantinga’s Replacement Argument	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Deane-Peter) - Alvin Plantinga, Chapter 8	Yes
Walker (A. Earl)	Cerebral Death	Book - By Subtopic	Walker (A. Earl) - Cerebral Death	1%
Weinstein (Sidney)	Functional Cerebral Hemispheric Asymmetry	Paper - By Subtopic	Kinsbourne - Asymmetrical Function of the Brain	No
Zimmerman (Dean)	Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited	Paper - By Subtopic	Gasser (Georg) - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death? 2010	Yes

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