Thoughts?: The Unsettling Truth about Human Consciousness | The Split Brain experiment that broke neuroscience


I'd like to know what Fellow Christians on the site think of this video.
I can't really do a TL;DW as it seems like he goes into just left field sometimes.

I guess I'll just use his own summary
"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."
Honestly what it seems to me is that you have a guy going into a thought experiment rabbit hole using a single handful of limited information and you have people using said thought experiment to try and figure out the nature of the universe.
 

Synth7

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If one considers the brain hardware and the soul software, could it be that this condition and others like it (schizophrenia)are multiple versions of the same program?
 
If one considers the brain hardware and the soul software, could it be that this condition and others like it (schizophrenia)are multiple versions of the same program?

Could be, It honestly could also be something as simple as hardware damage. The human body is a complex piece of art and it could be that cutting into it or tampering with it has adverse affects
 

Crom's Black Blade

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I suppose my thought, fully admitting I know nothing of neruoscience or anything of the experiments beyond this video, is do these individuals contain two distinct "personalities" and hypothetically having different desires and wants? Or is it a case of asking the patient to say/draw an object and a singular consciousness is rummaging through two separate filing cabinets. Like your brain has a timestamp you saw a hammer at X time which when asked you reference that but when you need to draw, and thus visualize and thus extrapolate how to render that image, that part of your brain has a picture of a saw for that same timestamp.
 
I suppose my thought, fully admitting I know nothing of neruoscience or anything of the experiments beyond this video, is do these individuals contain two distinct "personalities" and hypothetically having different desires and wants? Or is it a case of asking the patient to say/draw an object and a singular consciousness is rummaging through two separate filing cabinets. Like your brain has a timestamp you saw a hammer at X time which when asked you reference that but when you need to draw, and thus visualize and thus extrapolate how to render that image, that part of your brain has a picture of a saw for that same timestamp.

I have zero Idea. I had a hard time following the video as it was.
 

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