Dennett: David Hume doesn't seem to have it all. He says there's nothing apart from what consciousness is at that very moment? There's no you that's perceiving it, right? We talked about this with Sam Harris when he was on last time, right? There's just that conscious experience, no experiencer that we can find. Now, here, I think he's saying something more radical. Even the fictional self then is not apparent once we really examine what's going on in the present moment. And maybe some people just have less of this intuition. Maybe they just don't have this coherent sense of self over time,. The narrative sense of self that I seem to
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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