How Would Descartes Deal With The Incident Of Phineas Gage And Its Use To Prove Identity Theory?

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How Would Descartes Deal With The Incident Of Phineas Gage and Its Use To Prove Identity Theory?
When Phineas Gage was hit by a strong rod on the head, he amazed those who were around him on how he reacted towards that ordeal. As a matter of fact, after Gage had been hit by the rod on the head, he reacted as if nothing had happened to him; he stood up and took himself to the hospital. His story contributed immensely in the history of neuroscience. The injury really damaged his brain when he was only 25 years old. After the injury, he took himself to the hospital where he was attended by Dr. John Harlow. Dr. John Harlow treated the injury casually by simply cleaning and addressing the wound, and replaced the fragments of the skull around the exit wound. The doctor did not carry out an intensive research about the wound to ascertain the impact that injury would have had on Gage. It is important to note that despit...