Decades-long bet on consciousness ends – it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0

Re:Decades-long bet on consciousness ends – it’s philosopher... by patmorgan23 on Saturday June 24, 2023 @08:33AM (#36458161)

You're probably right. We have a couple examples of this happening.

There's the interesting quarks that people with split brain hemispheres experience. https://youtu.be/wfYbgdo8e-8

And dissociative identity disorder where there arguably multiple consciousnesses inhabiting the same brain.

It is probably an evolutionary advantage that humans have a ( mostly) uniform singular consciousness.

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Re:Decades-long bet on consciousness ends – it’s philosopher... by gizajob on Saturday June 24, 2023 @09:29AM (#36458532)

I think you’re mistaken, in that it’s naturally the same consciousness but different identities and recognisably different/altered personality states that come in and out in DID. The consciousness itself is always the same and continuous.

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Re:Decades-long bet on consciousness ends – it’s philosopher... by oefnak on Saturday June 24, 2023 @09:44AM (#36458647)

So they share the same memories?

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Re:Decades-long bet on consciousness ends – it’s philosopher... by kaba0 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @02:41AM (#36465616)

From the famous split-brain experiment I would conclude that they don’t share every memory. We are just very good at filling in the blanks, like we can bullshit forever about why that apple happened to be in our hand, even though we have no idea.

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Re:Decades-long bet on consciousness ends – it’s philosopher... by pasmafaute on Saturday June 24, 2023 @09:51AM (#36458701)

That's a pretty strong claim considering this is a field of study notorious for the obstacles to collecting direct evidence.

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