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by emp17344 59 days ago
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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nuancebydefault 59 days ago
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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Jensson 59 days ago
> 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.

Yes brains can hallucinate reasons, doesn't mean they always do. If all reasons given were hallucinations then introspection would be impossible, but clearly introspection do help people.

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vidarh 59 days ago
Because said "highly damaged brain" in most respects still functions pretty much like a healthy one.

There is no misinformation in what I wrote.

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