A Mystery

[Jonathan Ainsley Bain]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage#Brain_damage_and_mental_changes

In particular:

"Gage displayed significant changes in behavior after his injury, but the nature, extent, and duration of these changes have been difficult to establish."

Just as many articles claiming that there were no significant changes to his personality.

http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...rue_story_of_famous_frontal_lobe_patient.html

Macmillan now believes that Gage’s behavioral troubles were temporary and that Gage eventually recovered some of his lost mental functions

Phineas Gage is reborn every generation, but as a different man: Each generation reinterprets his symptoms and deficits anew. In the mid-1800s, for example, phrenologists explained Gage’s profanity by noting that his “organ of veneration” had been blown to bits. Nowadays scientists cite Gage in support of theories about multiple intelligences, emotional intelligence, the social nature of the self, brain plasticity, brain connectivity—every modern neuro-obsession. Even Macmillan, after studying the end of Gage’s life, has edged beyond merely debunking other people’s stories, and started presenting his own theory about Phineas Gage’s redemption.

The initial papers I studied at university, described his change in personality as being
the same as those who become famous - without this sort of damage:

 

[Riverwolf]

Just as many articles claiming that there were no significant changes to his personality.

http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...rue_story_of_famous_frontal_lobe_patient.html

I don't trust news articles to accurately report on the sciences.

The initial papers I studied at university, described his change in personality as being
the same as those who become famous - without this sort of damage:

Can you link to them?

 

[Jonathan Ainsley Bain]

I don't trust news articles to accurately report on the sciences.

Psychologist and historian Malcolm Macmillan, currently at the University of Melbourne
Here is his link:
http://www.assa.edu.au/fellowship/fellow/480

Can you link to them?

If you want you can query the Hons Psych course at Rhodes University South Africa.
(A science institution)
But there are countless references to Phineas Gage in all manner of publications.
Almost every one has its own interpretation on the matter.
Which is the point I am making about no known
absolute psycho-physical laws.

In Philosophy its called the mind-body problem.

If the mind was understood, there would be no poverty, murder or other social ills.
Most of academic science, unfortunately, is jargon for the sake of funding.

 

[psychoslice]

If baby hasn't someone to teach it, it will die.

 

[Latewish]

Whenever we do something, how do we do it?

We do it either from our experience of how we have done it before or through the experience of someone who has done it before. We can recollect from memory – we may have read about it, seen it being done or heard about it. But if we have not read or heard about it, have no personal experience of it and haven’t seen it being done before, then, could we ever do something? Chances are – no. But how does a baby, that is just born, know even with its eyes closed that it has to drink its mother’s milk to survive? Isn’t it a paradox? How is it possible for that young baby to know this? The young infant has just arrived into the world. It hasn’t been told how to do it, it hasn’t seen this before, nor has it ever experienced it - then how does this young baby do it?

This is a very important question to ponder on because this will make us realize certain truths that will help us uncover the mystery of life. But before we can uncover the mystery of life, we must stop and ponder on this: How is it possible for this young baby to be born and start doing things that nobody has taught it to do; things that he has never experienced before? How does this magic happen?

AiR

The baby at first he did not know that he needs milk, he did not know about milk, he felt hunger and thirst, but when his mother served him her breast, he smelled it than taste it and then sucked it, so first it was the need which he can't control than the sense of smell which he can't control and than the sense of taste which he can't control, all these senses that we can't control led him to satisfy his need. The human body is a vessel built and programmed to serve and guide the soul and keep it safe. And it always starts with the need, need is the mother of invention, we can do many things without past knowledge. The soul is an alien not from earth but the vessel is a native and natives always know the way..