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Re:The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of ... by Balgair on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:27PM (#39783251)
Just to be clear here, are you talking about the 'left-brain, right-brain' thing? Because I thought that was pretty well debunked.

Also, I think you are talking about the corpus callosum for the 'bus' right?

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Re:The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of ... by gHA5 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:38PM (#39783385)
He's probably talking about split brain patients. Here's a video by CGP Grey about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8
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Re:The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of ... by mrkstu on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:41PM (#39783422)
Yep.
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Re:The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of ... by smaddox on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:43PM (#39783449)
AFAIK, the part that's been debunked is that there's a complete separation of concerns between the two hemispheres. From studies on split-brain patients, there does appear to be some specialization, but it's much fuzzier than "right brain does art, left brain does analysis" or anything like that.
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Re:The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of ... by coldtea on Friday March 22, 2024 @05:26AM (#39788833)
>Because I thought that was pretty well debunked.

Only when it comes to "left/right side analytical/creative" split, and even that mainly based in a single 2013 study, which could have all kinds of issues. Not regarding different functions in general.

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