@LeeWoofenden Isn't it weird that, in a split-brain patient, the two brains cannot communicate with each other, but they have the same soul?

In fact, since only your left brain can speak, when you speak you are communicating to the right brain (if you have split brains)

@LeakyNun As long as we're in our physical body, the soul is connected to it, and can only communicate with the physical world through its structures and functions. If those structures and functions are damaged, the soul's ability to operate in the physical world is also damaged. The soul is not formless, but structured, and it requires complex physical structures to express itself in the physical world.

@LeeWoofenden But which brain is really him?

@LeeWoofenden My question would be: what is chronology of all things according to christianity and the Bible? I think first is God and then heaven.

@LeakyNun I think you're working with an overly simplistic idea of what a person is. We're not unitary points, but complex aggregates of many components.

@alvoutila Genesis starts out, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." So it seems clear enough that God is first, followed by the heavens and the earth. Swedenborg's cosmology has God successively creating the spiritual then the material worlds.

However, this is not really a creation progressively in time, because time as we know it doesn't exist outside the physical universe. It's a creation from prior to posterior in causation. Another way of looking at it is that it's a creation from the inside out.

Back to the soul and the body, Swedenborg stated that the soul forms the body from within throughout its period of development in the womb, and gives it life throughout its lifetime on earth. So the soul is prior and the body is posterior. However, as I said above, the soul requires a functioning body in order to express itself in this world. If that body is damaged in any way, it correspondingly damages the soul's ability to express itself during the person's life in the material world.

@LeeWoofenden so both brains constitute him?

@LeakyNun Both halves of the brain are part of the person, even if they've been surgically isolated from one another.

@LeeWoofenden How can a person split into two non-inter-communicate-able people?

The split brains can very much develop their own emotions

their own memories

their own personalities

to the point they are not really one person