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Re:Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness by incompatible on Friday January 27, 2017 @07:37PM (#13504050)
I'm not sure that this proves that there's a single consciousness. There may be a second consciousness that is receiving some information about observations from the other hemisphere.
Re:Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness by c3534l on Saturday January 28, 2017 @02:14AM (#13505332)
That was already known, too. It does show that it doesn't create two completely equal, completely functional consciousnesses. But the problem with brain damage is people tend to also lose the ability to recognize that an ability is missing, so we can't just ask peóle "are you a little less conscious than you were before we took out that part of your brain?"
Re:Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness by umberway on Saturday January 28, 2017 @01:26AM (#13505227)
I agree. The best that can be said is something about communication of information between different parts of the brain. But my reason is more fundamental: we don't understand what consciousness is yet. Hence we can't know what questions about 'it' are meaningful let alone what conclusions to draw.
Re:Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness by roywiggins on Friday January 27, 2017 @07:41PM (#13504064)
I can't prove you don't have two consciousnesses either, or maybe we all do and just don't notice.
Re:Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness by ci5er on Friday January 27, 2017 @08:15PM (#13504189)
You can't even prove GP has one!