Today I learned on Nostr: TIL Split-Brain Experiments by Sperry and Gazzaniga showed in patients with severed ...

TIL Split-Brain Experiments by Sperry and Gazzaniga showed in patients with severed corpus callosums (to treat severe epilepsy), the two hemispheres were unable to communicate. The experiment showed consciousness can “split” into two separate streams within the same person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
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