i find this fascinating and if there's all sorts of implications that i don't understand um we can talk about the implications for free will. I'm not prepared to defend the interestingness because i was thinking the exact same thing as i was reading this all like basically all day today. There is a really interesting empirical question here about what’s going on with the different hemispheres how much communication uh is possible without that bundle of nervesAll that stuff but as far as the implications to like consciousness i suppose that you have a metaphysical view that there is oneself in that selfyou know unless you're a crazy dualist that self is your brain right like that isand you have this unity
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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