The self is a useful fiction, something we create to make sense of our experience. If you talk about a center of a gravity, it's not something that actually exists. It just doesn't exist in the way that atoms and molecules exist as you were saying. We're gonna conclude this discussion by talking about... I guess this is an article in edited volumes. See edited volumes aren't the self as a center of narrative gravity? No i agree like that was the thing so one of our favorite of the recipes was the pasta parmesan with zucchini tuscan herbs and marinara sauce. Just baking the pasta like that is not something that we did and so we've
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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