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[โ€“] kromem 86 points 8 months ago (27 children)

If the connective tissue between your two brain hemispheres is severed, the two halves of your brain can't talk to each other.

When this happens, a second personality emerges for the right hemisphere, which doesn't have language but can roughly understand and answer things.

So for example, someone who was religious might have a right hemisphere that's atheistic. Or doesn't like the same things, etc.

One of the questions we might ponder is where this other personality comes from. Is it that in a sudden void of consciousness a new personality develops?

Or are we, with connected brain hemispheres, not actually a single persona at all, but more like the dogs in a trenchcoat looking like a whole person?

Is the 'you' reading this right now just the personality that's been on top for all this time, while there's other personas kept within you watching powerless and yearning for their turn in control? Each time you listen to your favorite song which maybe they have grown to hate, is a part of you screaming and you just can't hear them?

[โ€“] TheWoozy 15 points 8 months ago

I don't find this creepy at all. All the "personalities" in my brain are just parts of me.

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