How conscious are we really are?
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What percentage of the brain makes us?
Is the concept of an individual flawed? Is it better to see consciousness as a result of brain teamwork? And that consciousness resides mostly in the frontal lobe with links to other parts?
Think of the split brain experiment. Only one hemisphere controls speech. That part is also the one that other humans can interact with. Was consciousness subdivided or not?
The argument for it being subdivided is that the other part exists. You can ask it to draw things.
The argument for it not being subdivided is that it is not freaking out or "having its own mind." Rather, it is serving the other half where our self-awareness exists.
Was there any experiment where scientists tried conversing with the other hemisphere via written format? Is it able to answer who it is or is it just able to answer simple questions like "draw what you see"?
If you look at what each brain part deals with, you can count what you can fully control with one hand. Most of our brain is out of access. In other words, we don't have admin permissions to our own brain. We can interact with other parts indirectly, do some tricks to "teach" them and make them better, but we cannot just go into that part of the brain and change it as we please.
Is the concept of an individual flawed? Is it better to see consciousness as a result of brain teamwork? And that consciousness resides mostly in the frontal lobe with links to other parts?
Think of the split brain experiment. Only one hemisphere controls speech. That part is also the one that other humans can interact with. Was consciousness subdivided or not?
The argument for it being subdivided is that the other part exists. You can ask it to draw things.
The argument for it not being subdivided is that it is not freaking out or "having its own mind." Rather, it is serving the other half where our self-awareness exists.
Was there any experiment where scientists tried conversing with the other hemisphere via written format? Is it able to answer who it is or is it just able to answer simple questions like "draw what you see"?
If you look at what each brain part deals with, you can count what you can fully control with one hand. Most of our brain is out of access. In other words, we don't have admin permissions to our own brain. We can interact with other parts indirectly, do some tricks to "teach" them and make them better, but we cannot just go into that part of the brain and change it as we please.
