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.
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!
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