How Your Brain Decides Without You (2014)

Re:How Your Brain Decides Without You (2014) by marklgr on Monday December 07, 2015 @10:53AM (#10690148)

It depends on how you define "you". If it's the conscious self, then it does exist, even though it's anywhere near in control of as much as it believes. It's more like it's sometimes notified of what happens in the hood, and it got some veto on that.

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Re:How Your Brain Decides Without You (2014) by esMazer on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:20PM (#10691910)

there's no separation, you and your brain are not 2 different things. The interface (what most people call "you") is that, just the interface. The real "you" is everything..

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Re:How Your Brain Decides Without You (2014) by cmcnally on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:31PM (#10692457)

There has to be some degree of separation at some point though. For all I know, there could be more than one "me" experiencing life as processed by my brain at any given time, but the self cannot possible be the complete interface as a whole. If it were so, then the self could not continue to exist if a portion of the interface were removed, but it can, regardless of it being a less than optimal condition.

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Re:How Your Brain Decides Without You (2014) by monort on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:40AM (#10695007)

There is seems to be indeed two of you as evidenced by split brain patients:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain

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Re:How Your Brain Decides Without You (2014) by wnmurphy on Monday December 07, 2015 @05:36PM (#10693313)

It exists conceptually, as a representational model only. It uses symbolic systems of thought and language to perpetuate the illusion of a separate self.

"All boundaries are merely useful fictions." -Buckminster Fuller

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