like the brain is literally encased in the body so how can it be separate? like if you go around licking lamp posts you’re going to pick up some germ that’s gonna make you feel like crap and you get insomnia or fever and your brain will definitely be impacted. and so you’ll have short temper and that’ll get you into trouble.
Something i have thought about for some time. Do we only have one consciousness? Like if you literally split your brain in half via operation suddenly you got two brain halves tha’t can not communicate with each other in any way. Do you now have 2 personalities and consciousness? If yes, why don’t you have them before? Maybe you always have two but they are just in agreement. And why stop at two? There are some interviews with siamese twins (the teacher sisters for example) and it’s so interesting to see how they talk. They finish each other sentences which is natural i guess but they also say “ehh” when the other one doesn’t know a word. It’s like a single person talking. I am not arguing they are distinctive persons. Just some random thoughts.
The findings from those split-brain experiments are fascinating - and maybe a little unsettling.
I often wonder whether the “second consciousness” is created the moment the corpus callosum is cut, or whether it was always there, just hidden by the brain’s integration. If it’s the latter, that opens up some really interesting implications. For instance, when you feel like you should do something but don’t want to - could that inner conflict actually be the two hemispheres quietly disagreeing with each other?