"It just does strike me as well you know like from from the tachang episode uh... uh... stories that we're reading to mister robot to one of my favorite tv shows counterpartUh... like there's so much talk of this and i feel like yet the belief that there there this is just one of the possible," he says. "Mmm that thinking of the counterfactuals is giving us something like well you know it i don't know maybe it makes it people feel less alone in the universe or it kind of justifies the feeling of the loneness that they might already have it's probably a combination of so many different factors."
David and Tamler discuss famous 'split brain' experiments pioneered by Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga. What happens when you cut off the main line of communication between the left and right hemispheres of our brain? Why under certain conditions do the the left and right brains seem like they have different abilities and desires? What does this tell us about the ‘self’? Do we have two consciousnesses, but only that can speak? Does the left brain bully the right brain? Are we all just a bundle of different consciousnesses with their own agendas? Thanks to our Patreon supporters for suggesting and voting for this fascinating topic!
Plus, physicists may be able to determine whether we’re living in a computer simulation – but is it too dangerous to try to find out?
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