In all our studies of the brain, no mechanism has been discovered that can force the mind to think, or the individual to believe, anything. The mind continues free. That is a statement I have long considered.
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| Birth: | 26th January, 1891 |
| Death: | 5th April, 1976 |
| Nationality: | American, Canadian |
| Profession: | Neurologist |
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Wilder Graves Penfield was a pioneering neurosurgeon once dubbed "the greatest living Canadian". He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain. Penfield devoted a lot of his thinking to mental processes, contemplating whether there was any scientific basis for the existence of the human soul until his death.
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