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by throw310822 202 days ago
> I get the impression that the authors of the paper have some kind of woo (nonmaterialist) view of consciousness.

Indeed:

"Our findings, however, reveal that although the two hemispheres are completely insulated from each other, the brain as a whole is still able to produce only one conscious agent."

Which is materially impossible, given the premise.

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> although the two hemispheres are completely insulated from each other

How confident are we in this? Both hemispheres talk to singular organs, for instance.