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What's the Functionality of Religion?
Lux: I wonder if like my two hands have different because there's a different experience to be picking up something with my right hand and then my left hand. This is a really important question in the cognitive science of the self. Does that hemispheric difference mean you're multiple or you actually have a singular self? Lux: Oh, so it's important to understand how many cells are there? Yes, I think so. But that's just like a quirk of evolution. It's not it surely can be fundamental to cognition having multiple cells or a singular self.