The experiments and scientific papers from this research are undeniably weird. It’s too bad (from a research perspective) that there aren’t a lot of split brained people to do research on anymore since we stopped this particular treatment for epilepsy.
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Shit scary
this proves absolutely nothing about anything, except that humans have huge trouble saying they dont know something that they dont know but rather make up some shit. Especially people who think they are smart are guilty of this, and I doubt they all have split brains
Wow more and more I'm seeing and recognizing things about homeostasis between left and right brain. This is what alchemy is. So is meditation. So is dance. So is anything that connects you to your body. Mind body connection is left and right brain connection.
John malcovichs photo in muliptle at the end is everything. 😂
But why is communication only controlled on one side of the brain?
I very much feel this firsthand, when i speak Dutch to my family i not just have to change my language but also personality. It can get annoying. When i come back to the US i then have to switch mindsets and language again to make sense
How did he split the brain 🧠? 🪓
What is split/half brain? Lobotomy?
How do you ask one side of the brain? Are you asking the person?
The brain is much more connectively consistent then tbe video leads us to believe. I have had past effects from limited connectivity due to lymes disease affecting the activity and communication betwen the halves and different brain areas. Where the different halves behave more independent. This is laterally but also vertically. Where different zones of semi-independency develop. Great for playing chess against yourself. Having knocked down the pathogen (which ranges over different comorbodities in lymes, from bacterial, to commercial agricultural biochemical fungus agent, to parasitcal, whatever opportunistically breeches a compromised immune system, with long term lymes sufferers developing microvascular ischemia in the brain, leading to low blood flow ontop of neurotoxicity). Having knocked it down, my brain is consistently joined as normal, probably a bit more than normal from more carefully exercising rationality, balance, and physical control/agility. There serms to be a range of things which cause conditions, which if removed, could result in higher unified function. There is no disjiontness in a normally functioning brain. The full brain sees a whole picture and maps the knowkedge of the bell without false memory.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of variance in people's levels of condition, rather than optimun health, which is not really practiced properly in medicine. A lot of peolle hsve suffered for no reason.
Yes it is an integrated thing, with different structures of the brain doing their particular jobs, even confabulation. This is like saying the digestive system isn't an integrated thing. Sheesh.
Dualism?
I worked in mental health insane asylum and I can assure you there’s been like three cases and those three cases are highly debated over. I’ve been in a room full of 50 doctors who all I’ve never seen a patient with multiple personalities it’s pretty much bullshit and if you believe you know someone who mother sister blah blah I’m sorry no you don’t I hear that shit all the time you’re gullible and you’ve been had
This is why I always say parts of my brain of communicating with one another. My brain is in my skull but where's my mind?
I love this study and the point you’re making! Have you read Iain McGilChrist’s “The Master and his Emissary”? What is said here in relation to the experiment is fairly true. The left hemisphere’s capacity for invention and optimism is somewhat unnerving.
I wouldn’t necessarily say there is not an integrated self. Yes that’s basically true, I mean in a sense the self as a separate entity is an illusion – much as a branch of a tree is not separate from a tree. In another sense it’s possible that – following Jung’s argument of “individuation” – we can reintegrate our selves. Not to say that our “selves” aren’t somewhat illusory in that they are not what they appear to be, and are made up of various elements. In normal functioning, it’s more likely that a process of balancing takes place. The left and right sides work together, contributing to a functioning whole. For example in a “flow state”, no sense of separation of self from our activity, it’s likely the whole brain is actively involved. Additionally, the default mode network – the nodal network of parts of the brain which contribute to our sense of ourselves in time and space – is “shut down” in flow states, during the use of certain psychotropic substances, and in deep meditation. I would argue it’s a bit reductionist and mechanistic if we conclude the brain is simply a collection of separate components which we describe as unitary. Since we can see plenty of evidence of neuroplasticity in studies of learning and recovery from functional damage, and also anecdotally from reports from long term meditators etc, it’s likely our left and right hemisphere relationships can change over time. Still I love the point you’re bringing up with this fascinating experiment.
The language associated side of the brain – the left hemisphere- couldn’t admit to the different experiences of the two sides. It’s not that it decided not to. By definition the split brain experiment is conducted on people with two sides disconnected. The corpus callosum is the bridge between the two sides, which is cut in those with a split brain, as a way to reduce severe epilepsy. Interestingly however in normal functioning you’ll also see the two sides suppress the functioning and activation of the other side. So we can lie to ourselves by suppressing feelings and thoughts. Fascinating
It’s basically true that our brains have different parts and they contribute in different ways. Love the content 👍
wait what?? that's crazy, ok i gotta learn more about this now
Absurd. One connected brain is one personality. a physically split brain means split personality.
Do not listen to another internet "doctor"
So your basic saying one side of me is just watching our life
A normal, healthy brain is integrated. stop saying stupid stuff.
Ahhh, and enlightenment is starting to make sense
Thanks
This is called confabulation. Living with memory loss (eg Alzheimer's) can be confusing when struggling to recall a memory and someone will often invent a story to make sense of the word around them.
I am curious about the process of how they question the patient. Meaning what is the process that communicated left from right?
Wut.
Im literally telling a speech on this today!
This clearly explains why Buddhism does not believe in the concept of soul although it believes in the concept of consciousness.
David goggins says there are two voices in your head, one is a bitch and the other is trying to help you by being hard.
impossible conclusion, they just concluded possible😂
What the thinker thinks, the prover proves
Eerily similar to LLMs hallucinating reasonable sounding answers to fill in gaps. It may be possible that the language centre of the brain is not actually dissimilar to our LLMs but the LLMs are lacking the other brain functions we possess to keep our language centers in check.