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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

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The Left Brain Feeling

The feeling of unification is just this one center which is in charge of making sense of what it is that i'm doing but if you told me that there are all these other parts that are governed by other things like emotions i might not be aware of habits and stuff like that. The fact that even the split brain patients don't have a disunity a sense of like a phenomenological disjoint is super interesting right? If you want to make a argument about consciousness it doesn't seem as if this is the right kind of empirical information, he says.

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