The story of the people with virtually no brains, who nevertheless lead normal lives and had often better than average IQs, first surfaced when I was living near Sheffield. I have no exact data now, but I seem to remember it was about forty years ago, and there was at least one TV documentary, and some comment in scientific and other journals. It’s genuine, I think. It surfaced in the early days of MRI scans, when things were being seen that hadn’t been possible before. As far as anything that I saw at the time goes, no-one made much of the obvious, glaring question: “Well, if these people have such small amounts of brain tissue, how do they have such complete mental lives, and where is the source of their consciousness, if not these limited brains?” Such questions were as taboo then to the materialist, reductive paradigm as the are now.

Cofion gorau, Rhisiart

I think the problem is in the definition of a brain. It tends to assume something, and then people look for something to fulfill the role they created! It’s all backwards.