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RMQualtrough

Leo, consider researching split-brain surgery for your next anti-skeptic video

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A suggestion for you if you make another video to aid skeptics.

See Corpus Callosotomy patients (splitting the brain hemisphere). Each side of the brain continues on as its own person which can function differently from the other. Yet of course when they are attached as ours are, we find that there is only one I, not two.

So if the same I is in both sides, and only separation is what prevents them from directly knowing each others contents... Then what is the difference between my brain and yours to where the I WOULDN'T be the same anymore?

You may invite this line of questioning:

Have the viewer close their eyes and focus on their field of awareness. Have them notice thoughts all appear inside of it... Challenge them to have any thought that does not appear perceived in this field of being. See if they can hear any sound which does not appear in this field of awareness.

Now ask if they can find the split. See if they can find where the awareness of one hemisphere ends and the other begins...

We know that the right brain controls the left side and the left brain the right side. Have them tough the fingertips of both hands together, and see if either is experienced by a different and distinct consciousness. Or is it the same one?

If it is the same one, then why assume it is a different one in another mind simply because it is separated and limited as happens in Corpus Callosotomy patients where the two hemispheres are separated? Perhaps you or some others may find this of use.

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I think he has addressed this before. Not sure where.


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