#102 - Is Buddhism True?
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Modular Model of the Mind
One thing you point to which is a genuine mystery with respect to the brain just why consciousness is at the level that it seems to be and not lower or higher. You know whether there are subsystems in our own brains that are alternately conscious or independently conscious so as somebody I wrote about briefly and waking up the idea that when you perform a commissure ottomy on on a patient to treat their grand mal seizuresyou're dividing the midline structures that connect the two hemispheres of the brain.
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