(October 22, 2013 at 2:36 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Alright, let's have a little fun. Ever heard of the corpus callosum, Sword? It's the little connective piece of your brain that joins the left hemisphere to the right hemisphere. When that piece is damaged, we have what's called a split-brain injury.
Split brain patients undergo a host of symptoms that, if consciousness was some magical thing that isn't tied to the brain in terms of its generation, we wouldn't expect to see. For one, since the speech center is located in one side of the brain alone, they won't be able to speak the names of objects they can clearly identify, so long as that object is placed within the visual field that connects to the visual brain center on the opposite side of the brain to the speech center. To be clear, all the components are working, it's just that, since consciousness is tied to the brain, it can't bridge the gap and make the proper connections anymore.
Hell, there have even been split brain patients with two distinct belief systems: V.S Ramachandran (I hope that's how you spell that.) studied a patient that was a theist in one half of his brain, and an atheist in the other, a discovery made by monitoring the two lobes for activity when presented with religious stimuli; one half believed, the other did not.
So, how does that fit in with magic-consciousness, Sword? Does that guy have two minds now? Is one of them going to heaven, and the other to hell? If e ever find a way to repair this, do they suddenly become one again?
So you have one being/person who effectively is operating two different brains at the same time? That actually may tell you something.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.
