re: #5 Bob Levin

Okay, then what are the scientific reasons for choosing to study pathology rather than study the people whose consciousness is more highly developed than the vast majority? I haven’t seen those latter studies, just studies relating to pathology.

That’s odd because if you are interested in this, there is a wealth of material out there. You could start with V.S. Ramachandran, whose work on phantom limb and other neurological disorders and anomalies has made significant advances in our understanding of how the brain functions. Think about the studies into blindsight, prosopagnosia among others.

Then it will also come as a shock for you to know that in Chinese medicine, the brain does not play a significant part in consciousness, it is referred to as a ‘curious organ’, not as the axis of our internal universe, as in Western Medicine.

Chinese medicine also recommends powdered tiger penis as an aphrodisiac so actually it’s not really that surprising to find that they have no significant role for the brain in their ‘medicine’.

As far as I know, Chinese people who suffer brain injuries have their consciousness affected as much as anyone else.