[ninesnines]

Eh maybe its because I've spent a lot of time studying neuroscience and psychology, but I think the jump from the split brain phenomena due to cutting the corpus callosum to having multiple internal 'people' is kind of a large jump. It also seems obvious to me that parts of your brain are communicating, and if you cut a large connection, then they will need time to form new connections and ways of perceiving the world.

And of course we all contain many layers in terms of personality etc. I also would be careful at taking Freuds words too closely -- a lot of his works were not backed explicitly by science, and many psychologists don't support his ideas.

But of course maybe I'm just engrained with traditional thinking -- I can suggest listening to Jeff Hawkin's podcast on Lex Fridman. He has some interesting novel ideas on neuroscience that pushed me to think a bit more abstractly.

[colechristensen]

What I think is demonstrated is that you can cut a conscious brain in half in the right way to result in two separate consciousness entities.

In the same way that you could cut a small piece of a person’s brain out and the larger remaining piece is still conscious, it would follow that there is no single point in the brain where you could divide it in half and say this half has the consciousness the other one does not. Consciousness must then be distributed amongst a certain portion of brain matter and can be cut and still exist separately in both cut pieces.

[plutonorm]

Follow that thought process down the rabbit hole and you arrive, inexorably, at panpsychism.