There is a sense in which we feel like, like, you know, I'm getting close to 50, right? Like, I'm in my late 40s. And like, there's the spark that's the same in me that it that was in my 30s. You know, if I look at old videotapes of myself, like, it totally, but again, this is not when I'm 10. This is when I'm 35 or whatever. There is a sense that I still and I'm like, sometimes I think I still feel the same, even if like, yeah, I can't play like basketball anymore without getting, you know,. Or I feel different,
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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