I would think his neural network would go absolutely haywire. Being split right down the middle is going to sever an untold number of nerves, so I doubt he'd "feel" many portions of his body - at the very least, with any sort of acuity. |
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I have been puzzled by this idea for such a long time. Please debate. |
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I would think his neural network would go absolutely haywire. Being split right down the middle is going to sever an untold number of nerves, so I doubt he'd "feel" many portions of his body - at the very least, with any sort of acuity. |
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It is an interesting question, but I doubt the brain would function enough for him to have any sense of self at that point. |
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Why don't we find out? |
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Here is my answer... I am pretty confident in it. |
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Actually, deliberately severing the two hemispheres of the brain is one type of treatment for epillepsy. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain |
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And there also exists a procedure where a whole hemisphere is removed/disabled http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy. |
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he would be for a very short time be in two places at once. if you could read his mind you would most likely get a poem and some observation. (or just babaling) |
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That would not only sever the corpus collosum, but also would split several parts of the limbic system and the thalamus, not to mention splitting the brainstem in half. Because the thalamus and brainstem connect the afferent neurons in one side of the body with the opposite side of the brain, all sensory input(with the possible exception of smell) would be cut off. In most people, the left brain is the area where lingual, analytic thought occurs, but other processes occur in the right brain. In experiments with split brain patients, the different sides of the brain seem to exist independently of each other, although in those cases the brains are still connected in the brainstem. |
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Super profundo on the early eve of your day
The personality is split in half. Now to conscious beings exist. |
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Good question! |
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Ha good question. I do not believe a person would be concious enough to tell the difference, but for the sake of argument... Unfortunately, the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and vice versa. It could be a split conciousness, but there would be no feeling. |
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This, though, is a result of a surgical procedure. I would think that the end result would be a lot different from someone taking a guillotine through the body. I'm not saying that just by having the brain cut in half (no matter the procedure) it would cease to function, only that having a blade slice straight through your body is a much more crude process. I don't know enough about the brain to know what processes what sensation, but as far as perspective, I think the man would still feel like a single person, all though the impulses going through his (now severed) mind would be without logical order. Haywire. |
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This reminds me of amputees reporting on having an itch in their missing limbs! Now that must be a pain!!! |
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On a more simplistic level, what happens when a bacterium splits? If only bacteria could talk... |
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Originally Posted by OldSparta
If two consciousnesses are created, where is the continuity for the man's consciousness? Does he go into one of them, and then a separate new one is created? Or do two new perceptions arise and the man's original consciousness is destroyed. |
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Oohhumm
Most likely, both halves would have a sense of being the whole self independently from each other. |
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What happens with split-brained people is that the consciousness does get split in half. Left brain functions are only available to the left consciousness, and right brain functions are only available to the right consciousness. Each half is only conscious of the opposite half of the body and the visual field. This does cause certain problems, but split-brained patients are usually relatively normal individuals. It might be possible that, subjectively, the person is still conscious of both sides of the body, but they are unable to exhibit behaviors that suggest this. |
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Super profundo on the early eve of your day
We have found that we can survive with half of the brain. Literally. |
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I once watched a documentary where they actually talked about a guy who had an entire hemisphere removed and besides limited control over half of his body, he was perfectly fine. That made me wonder what would happen if they did such surgery to a healthy brain and installed the removed half into an extra empty headed body. |
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You'll notice that when a zygote splits in half, it produces two independent consciousnesses which both think themselves to be 'the original', if you will, and both experience consciousness in their respective body. |
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I'm with Belisarius that the proposed method would sever the brainstem, causing instant death, but if we did isolate and sustain both hemispheres somehow, it would probably create a fork in the mindstream. Both hemispheres would identify with the undivided consciousness up to the split, and after the split, they would proceed as two different entities, each carrying on only some of the qualities of the original. |
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