Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness
Very Bad Wizards
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The Mystery of Communication in the Brain
i think some people have interpreted this to support some kind of more mysterious if not dualistic or at least non-material uh theory of consciousness. There is there is evidence that there is a minimal amount of communication in sub-cortical structures um that but the amount that seems possible just physiologically is very little like it doesn't seem as if you could get that much information across the two so it seems a bit mysterious how this information is making its way from one side of the brain to another yeahUm now let me describe what gazanaga thinks um which i think is a plausible a very plausible interpretation in gazanaga's paper he says that the interpretation of the
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