I was about to come back (actually on my way to the computer) and regretfully inform you that I had no idea where I had seen it… but then a key phrase came back to me, and voila! (I had the story a little wrong: it was a stroke that caused the damage, and it was a leukemia relapse the sister had.)
The page has a lot of other interesting case studies involving the brain, as well. I need to give the whole site a re-browse… it’s been quite a while since I’ve looked at it. I seem to remember it being like an atheism-oriented LessWrong.
Thank you very much for going through the trouble of finding all these case-studies! :)
(For anyone else interested, I should remark these aren’t the actual studies, but quick summaries within an atheistic context that is concerned with disproving the notion of a soul—but there are references to all the books within which these symptoms are described.)
The Alien Hand Syndrome is always good for a serious head-scratching indeed.
I was about to come back (actually on my way to the computer) and regretfully inform you that I had no idea where I had seen it… but then a key phrase came back to me, and voila! (I had the story a little wrong: it was a stroke that caused the damage, and it was a leukemia relapse the sister had.)
The page has a lot of other interesting case studies involving the brain, as well. I need to give the whole site a re-browse… it’s been quite a while since I’ve looked at it. I seem to remember it being like an atheism-oriented LessWrong.
Thank you very much for going through the trouble of finding all these case-studies! :)
(For anyone else interested, I should remark these aren’t the actual studies, but quick summaries within an atheistic context that is concerned with disproving the notion of a soul—but there are references to all the books within which these symptoms are described.)
The Alien Hand Syndrome is always good for a serious head-scratching indeed.