"If i don't believe that functionalism is true or that can explain consciousness then there's no reason for me to think that i am a simulation my epistemic position yeah it's hard to shake my like firm belief this can't be as if you have but you know they could have programmed that into me," he says. "Don't not give the charity that's fucked up all right well we will be back uh i have to simulate taking a piss right now you don't need to take a piss because we're just in a simulation you can just piss your pants who cares that's not really pissing your real pants it's just ones and zeros all right we'll be
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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