Phineas Gage was a construction worker about 100 years ago. Due to an
explosion, a metal pipe went through his head like so. Miraculously, he
was not killed. In fact, it went through his head, ended up 100 feet
away. Covered with brains and blood and Phineas Gage sat down and went
“Uh, oh.” And then on the way to the hospital they stopped by a pub to
have some cider. He was not blind, he was not deaf, he was not retarded.
But something else happened to him. He lost his sense of right and
wrong. He lost his control. He used to be a hard-working family man.
After the accident he lost all of that. He couldn’t hold a job. He
couldn’t stay faithful to his wife. He couldn’t speak for five minutes
without cursing. He got into fights. He got into brawls. He got drunk.
He lost his control. He ended up on a circus sideshow traveling through
the country with the big steel pipe that went through his head. And this
is again an extraordinary example of how the brain can give rise to the
mind, and how things that go wrong with the brain can affect you in a
serious way.
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