Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness
Very Bad Wizards
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The Implications for Consciousness
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
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