In the 1939 neuroscientists began cutting living human brains in two in order to treat certain types of epileptic seizures. Subsequent experiments on those patients gave science an unnerving window into the nature of human consciousness. It turns out that there might be more versions inside of your own brain than you might be comfortable with.
CORRECTION: In this piece I stated each eye sent information to alternate hemispheres. This was not correct. Instead, as the diagram shows, the eyes divide the field of view into left and right sides and transmit each side to alternate hemispheres. The net effect is still the same as I explained in the video. Thanks to all the people who pointed out my error.
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CORRECTION: In this piece I stated each eye sent information to alternate hemispheres. This was not correct. Instead, as the diagram shows, the eyes divide the field of view into left and right sides and transmit each side to alternate hemispheres. The net effect is still the same as I explained in the video. Thanks to all the people who pointed out my error.
I treat my epilepsy with weed. I haven't had a seizure in 3 years. I get grand mal ones. Usually in my sleep.
He fails to mention the most amazing evidence of all this… consciousness exists outside of our body.
You lost me at leaky gut. A lot of good people with real conditions lost a fortune or died because quacks told them they had leaky gut.
i'd like to see what happens when joe only drives with one of his eyes are open, say its the eye that isnt in charge of making choices and decisions, but the one for drawing the saw from your example.. would that just make him basicly driving with his eyes closed but he can kinda also see whats going on and think its normal?? So strange..
Its insight into universal consciousness and every living organism is connected to it, even with half a brain.
Found you this morning – appreciate the topics and your way of explaining things. My late-husband did an independent study on The Holographic Paradigm in 1992, led to my way of perceiving Reality (kept to myself mostly, not being academic enough to explain it)- curious your thoughts on Federico Faggin and his book Irreducible – it helped me explain/told-you-so to my OBGYN-Dad and Pediatrician-Mom what i had been saying all along. A leading physicist, who invented the touch pad, studied thirty years and figured it out was not someone they cold roll their eyes at. cheers- will continue to dive into your work
I dont think that's what consciousness is. Consciousness is the thing experiencing the vision, and it is the experiencer of thoughts. It's not the thoughts nor the image, but the recipient of them.
Not even sure if this is related, but, when I was a silly 13 year old boy, I decided to try a technique which forcefully knocks yourself out. It was near sports day, and I did it on a high-jump mat (for more safety when I fell). I woke up, literally clueless to where I was. The mat was on the oval, and my entire class was in the distance, but I entirely forgot what a human was, what planet I was on, where I was, what I was, and so on. For about ten seconds this lasted till the foggy clouds disappeared and I was normal again. It was so trippy.
Rather than cut the brain in half, wouldn’t just closing one eye do the same thing?
You point to split brain research in this video, but I've seen very similar evidence in studies of people who have experienced single hemisphere damage from strokes or accidents. Sudden personality changes occur in constellations or patterns according to the location of damaged tissue. I would like to see more content on this. Sometimes psychiatrists and neuroscientists publish the same findings in different journals. It is an inderdisciplinary science that is becoming more recognized as similarities and differences emerge from computer science, linguistics, physical rehabilitation, and even marketing all weigh in on this fascinating subject!
I speak to varying degrees: English, Spanish, Hebrew, Hindi and Japanese. I swear that I feel like a slightly different person depending on the language that I am communicating in
Why is when hearing a conversation we don't understand few words or hearing to an unknown language we don't understand, because we don't have those words in our consciousness audio library, simple again, why at basic schooling we were taught names of things like A for apple B for ball etc etc That was to increase our audio visual library to associate n at death , because our Brain looses current and resultantly Consciousness fails to work and losses association and gets disassociated
Very fascinating concepts. I'm sure there are a few brains we might want to stay away from, since they appear to be toxic. Like DJT
Your a clever cookie i reckon your spot on.
Get out of my tissue 😭😭
If you don't already know that we invent our own reality, you haven't eaten mushrooms. But it is interesting to see the experiments.
to understand the instructions of the prudent
Only the hemisphere that retains the original stream of consciousness can be considered the original self.
Any new consciousness that emerges due to the split is not a continuation, but rather an independent agent with no claim to ones past identity.
5:09 how did they show the bell to only one side of the brain? Do the left and right eye also work seperate? I'm asking cuz I don't know much about this
Risks? That's a no to guinea pig experimentation that involves the brain.
integrated information theory
Yeah. That explains all the crazy these days..
This still can’t answer the question of an ever present nature no matter how much we try to define it science simply can’t account for that. It wouldn’t be seamless and lacking of any form of transition taking place whether it constantly or every so often. I wouldn’t be the same I as the next I even if it’s just cloned version of me. It still in nature isn’t the genesis. But cool idea on the processes.
Stopped watching because…..American
not true about consciousness
If you have a chance to talk to a neuroscientist, ask them how 100 billion neurons are organized.
Then ask them how society would be organized if it used the human brain as a template where neurons are organized by the ideas they represent and humans would be organized by the beliefs they have.
this is just an amazing video! no it's not, i wanna watch Beavis and Butthead.
We are all one so… okay… I would like steak tonight and you know how I like my steaks. Arriving soon.
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This is one the most important videos on YouTube. Nobody ever talks about this because it scares everyone.
Are you a Leary child? My mom ,grew up in Greenwich village in the '60's. She was apart of that time period. At 17, 1997, she found my " experience" materials. She was only concerned about the beer. She believed, and so do I. The experiences, do change your thought plane. For the better, in my experiences. what is , or is there, an actual reality. I love this guy.
Its called a callosotomy,its not commonly done,usually they do a partial, and see if the seizures are controlled,then if not, they will cut the CC completely, I've only seen about 10 in my 35 years in the medical profession
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Yes. There are many many different processes and regions in the brain those together creates you and your human experience. We are private simulations
Your countries evolutes. Qvantum computer – humiliation of the whole humanity. Maybe soon you will accept "YOU-TWO". LGBTQ+ shall be happy – leaders help to communicate with the child – Kremlin has different goals, wars, repressive operations, deliver everithing – prostitution.