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emp17344yesterday at 7:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

That is absolutely not what the split brain experiment reveals. Why would you take results received from observing the behavior of a highly damaged brain, and use them to predict the behavior of a healthy brain? Stop spreading misinformation.


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nuancebydefaultyesterday at 8:32 PM

Such 'highly damaged' brain is still 90 percent or more structured the same as a normal human brain. See it as a brain that runs in debug mode.

It is known that the narrative part of the brain is separate from the decision taking brain. If someone asks you, in a very convincing, persuasive way, why you did something a year ago and you can't clearly remember you did, it can happen that you become positive that you did so anyway. And then the mind just hallucinates a reason. That's a trait of brains.

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vidarhyesterday at 9:52 PM

Because said "highly damaged brain" in most respects still functions pretty much like a healthy one.

There is no misinformation in what I wrote.