
53: The Case Against Reality | Don Hoffman (classic + updated)
The After On Podcast
The Split Brain Patient
In normal people, you have a corpus callosum which sends information across. But with the split brain patient, that liaison between the hemispheres is gone. The right hemisphere can understand language, but it can't talk. So when you ask the person, what did you see? The left hemisphere is talking, and it only saw the word ring. This suggests you have two conscious beings. That's right.
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