The case of Phineas Gage, a railroad worker who survived a metal rod piercing his brain between 1823 and 1860, serves as an early indication of the dependence between the mind and the brain because the accident caused a radical change in his personality from balanced and well-liked to gross, profane, coarse, and vulgar.

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• Person: Not available Organization: Cambridge University Press
  Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness

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• Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press via serper

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• mind concept
• brain concept
• personality concept