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

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The No Self and the Love Affair

Buddhist understanding of the no self is very much in line with what's going on at the end. The left hemisphere as the interpreter and explainer and the confabulator is really sort of sympathetic to this. But even the gazaniga and the people who have used the split brain stuff to argue for two consciousnesses, that even is something that the no self view would say, well, you've gone a step in the right direction. Even if I was just doing this myself, I would say, join us next time.

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