Split-Brain Patients and the Unity of Consciousness | Documentary
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- Can a conscious mind be divided? Beginning in the 1950s, experiments with split-brain patients revealed that consciousness could be divided between the two hemispheres of the brain. A surprising implication was that if consciousness could be divided, then it could also be combined. Evidence of this came in 2006, when conjoined twins Krista and Tatiana Hogan were born. The Hogan sisters were born with their brains connected by a thalamic bridge, which allowed a unique mental connection between them. We explore this surprising mental connection, and the possibility that we may one day connect our own minds with other conscious beings, together with what this might mean for our concept of self, identity, and the future of mind.
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Hi everyone. I hope you find this video interesting. I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about these subjects.
Incredible. One of your best videos to-date, genuinely. This was such a mind-expanding episode, it gave me a profound sense that I was learning something deep about the cosmos. I have a friend who is considering making a contribution to your Patreon significant-enough to pay for you to focus on this material for 12 months straight. I believe you are one of the greatest minds contemplating consciousness in our current generation. You have been an absolutely central component in my own spiritual awakening; it was some of your earlier videos which I consulted during the dark night of the soul, when I was confronting my own mortality. You are doing such beautiful, and such important work. Thank you for all of your material. Please, never stop making it. You're providing such a sense of rational optimism during such dark times.
@@NicholasMountainMan Thank you so much Nicholas. It’s truly heartening to hear that what I’m doing has had a positive influence on you. It would be amazing to be able to focus on creating these videos without worrying about funding, but either way, I’ll never stop making them. I’m curious what video was beneficial to you during your spiritual crisis? Thank you very much for your kind words.
WOW!!!! I did this. This helped me so much in understanding what happened. Amazing vid. great timing.
epic my friend slapping that like!
@@user-nn7mg3bp4u Thank you my dude!
Dude, your videos are insane.
I'll take that as a compliment :)
Being able to combine consciousness would be a giant leap for humanity. Everybody would be able to "walk a mile in another person's shoes" and to share their thought process and experiences would drastically decrease conflict and raise the levels of compassion, understanding and peace.
That’s definitely true. I know, because I have a gift for seeing from other peoples viewpoints. The downside is that their fears affect you. Their negativity. You have to be really strong-minded. And it’s easy to lose yourself regardless. Which is why I always thought I had no ego to begin with. 🤷♀️ Understanding is so key. Which is why people need to be more intelligent. Like a couple standard deviations would be nice 👍🏻 🥰🤷♀️
You can combine consciousness with someone you're close to on high doses of LSD
We can adopt compassion and tolerance now, without the "proof" of walking in another's shoes. A greater level of compassion arises when there are no conditions; when we may not understand why another behaves and believes the way they do, yet we accept them and recognize our shared struggle. By simply acknowledging that we're all born here as babies without any idea of where we are, how we got here nor why. And we're all just doing the best we can given our circumstances... even though it may not look that way from an outside observer.
We would become a single mind
Or it can go the other way around
The possiblity of two minds connecting also poses the possiblity of experiencing past behaviour through another person's eyes. A victim and a perpetrator, for example
Very well put!
I love the study of consciousness and this was the most incredible and thought provoking film thus far I have seen. Thank you! The last part about what a thought bridge with other species would mean about our sense of self is mind-blowingly amazing.
Thank you very much!
This video opens up answers to physical and spiritual questions.
Get it left side was the atheist part of the brain which is behind theft.
🤯🤯🤯 Whoa! This has fascinating implications for our ideas of spirituality and religion. If we are, or can be, multiple centers of consciousness rather than a single unitary "self" (this makes total sense to me--I'm other people in my dreams all the time), weird things start happening to our common concepts of "salvation" or "reincarnation" of a "soul."
That bit toward the end about the effects of being able to experience other people's memories--isn't that pretty much what "past-life recall" is? We usually interpret it as memories of a unitary "soul" that jumps from body to body to body ("my" past lives), but what if it's more like a non-local thalamic bridge that connects people across space and time, or a "sea" of memories that can sometimes be tapped into?
This is gold , groundbreaking understanding that once we will be able to be one within and not split , we will se the same outside, more and more
Fantastic video! I've been exploring youtube for all sorts of videos on consciousness for last 15 years. This is one of those rare videos that breaks new ground in terms of ideas covered. Great work!
This is fantastic. Thank
you for your work and insight.
Thanks Scott. Glad you enjoyed it!
What quality content man , loved it keep going you are doing a wonderful job and I wish you all the good luck.
Thank you very much Varun!
thank you for this contents! you deserve more attention on this platform
Thanks! Glad you enjoy them.
Excellent thought provoking production. Thank you.
Amazing video. I'm currently reading Conscious from Annaka Harris and this video appeared! Connection.
I love that book. I keep trying to get Annaka on the podcast.
@@metaRising yes! Will be amazing!! Thanks for this channel!! Love it
@@nachociatti4401 Glad you're enjoying it! :)
I'm literally obsessed with your chanel, quality vids 🤝😩
Your content is above and beyond,no doubt about that.
Down the rabbit hole I go. This was great!
Very well articulated video.
Thank you very much!
Wow, that part with the Hogan twins was incredibly interesting. Thank you for this awesome video, I appreciate it.
Great as always 🙏🏽
Thank you! :)
Nicely done! I really enjoy watching your videos. Keep on the good work!!
Thank you very much!
Split-brain research is fascinating but also really confusing for me. Two entities living in the same body, unaware of each other’s existence, divided in some ways but also controlling one body together. Makes me wonder if my unsplit brain also contains multiple conscious selves.
@@jeroenvanhuisstede5220 Indeed! Perhaps we are already a combinatory entity.
@@jeroenvanhuisstede5220 It is interesting to note that with this research, people still feel whole, they still feel like one "self" even with two different hemispheres operating seperately
@@claytonthomas5510 Yeah that’s exactly what puzzles me. For instance, when I talk to someone with a split brain, is it the left hemisphere that replies? Unaware of another conscious presence? And if so, does it feel strange for the right hemisphere that the body is suddenly producing language without its intent? Or has the right hemisphere always been conscious of itself and used to its own silence? I have so many questions….
First thoughts, well narrated. You've got a cool relaxed delivery style. Now I'll watch the rest
Thank you. I wish I could say it comes naturally, but it doesn't!
Great episode
Amazing video.
Thank you Ben!
Fantastic video! Thanks so much!!
Love it! Part 2 please!
Great Video again! I am very intrigued by views that see consciousness as a field like quality or is the most fundamental aspect of reality entirely
Thank you Clayton! I'll be posting more videos on that subject.
@@metaRising Very cool!
Mind = blown. I thought you put all your cards on the table, but you had only just begun. You proceeded to pull out ace after ace after ace.
I was understandably amazed with the twins but dismissed their symbiosis as an anomaly based on their shared physical brains, but then you jumped to the right/left hemisphere concept and took it to another level. The 'devil on one shoulder, angel on the other' allegory suddenly made perfect sense. And building a thalamic bridge to not only experience another human's mind, but to peek into the experience of your beloved dog or cat? A journey through the tentacled mind(s) of an octopus? Grasping an understanding of the humpback's song? Insight into the perspective of the ant or bacteria or fungus? Can you imagine hitching a ride on an elder's passage through the process of death? With the possibility of glimpsing the 'other side'?
Beyond fascinating!!
Absolutely fascinating
Excellent. Keep them coming.
Individuality is the biggest illusion we humans have.
I think you're probably right.
@@metaRising The Irony of us humans is that even if we want we cannot be an Individual.
Human Experience consists of a series of Experiences in the Now. which is always changing. How can that be "YOU"? YOU have always been ''YOU'' haven't you? Your thoughts?Feelings.Perceptions always change to an Unchanging Subject.
The Next time you walk,drive,run pay real close attention & see if Expirences are coming to you or you are going thru IT. If you really pay attention you can notice Subtle Changes always happening in your Body @ first it might feel hard but this get easier as You notice these changes.
PS. Whenever I say You "I am" referring to that Consciousness which is Prior to I am & that which can't be Ultimately named, meaning you can't really point @ an object and say thrs consciousness cause it's a dimensionless point.
YOU ARE THAT DIMENSIONLESS POINT.
Science still has yet to come in terms with the Fact that The Observer Plays An Important role in this whole Drama, this Observer is not a Human Observer or Alien or Animal Observer its the only Observer thrs.
The voice you talk to yourself in your head its yourself. Consciousness Splits itself in form You Me that this Etc, This duality is so normalized we dont think it as weird.
ONE UNIVERSAL LIFE EXPERIENCING ALL ITS DIVERSITY THRU DIFFERENT FORMS.
Two beings under one body. An individual made of multiple consciousness tied together aswell as trillions of independent cells…
jj the biggest ilusion some of us have, is to believe that all of us are inteligent and understant human conscience and individuality.
We are all singular individuals and this experiences where criminal.
Your videos are really good! You always point to something I have not thought of before, even though I think a lot about these topics. Today it was the theoretical possibility of bridging human and non-human animals. Will have to ponder that for a while. Thank you.
After watching all of your videos, listening to all of your stuff on Spotify, several profound psychedelic experiences and a lot of meditation during the last two years I am now more confused and intrigued at the same time than ever before when it comes to consciousness. It feels good and bad at the same time. For every answer I seem to get, a myriad of more questions pop up. Beyond fascinating.
Such a good video.
Thanks James! :)
Greate video with great knowledge
Best video I have watched recently
Thanks a lot!
Great video thanks
Loved it!
Excellent!
Glad you liked it!
Loved this! Interesting idea about conflict resolution as a possibility. Maybe in the future we won't have to figuratively walk a mile in someone's shoes to understand them in a much more meaningful way. We can take a little short cut and bond through shared conciousness.
Thanks a lot! That does seem like a possibility.
We can all do this already. We just have to practice and be open to different perspectives. I'm not going to lie, it's hard, but it is possible.
This is by FAR the best explanation of the experiment I've seen yet. The other videos I've watched regarding the tests on split brain people don't explain it very well
Thank you Josh!
Split brain patients don't report any difference in their personality or self-perception compared to before the procedure, the two hemispheres are not separate consciousnesses.
This video intellectually explains mediumship. Thank you for creating this thought provoking and informative video!
'We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself' - Carl Sagan
One of my favorite quotes :)
@@metaRising Mine too! Great video BTW. Thanks for your reply.
What is consciousness? It's certainly hard to define. That's why David Chalmers coined the term 'The Hard Problem of Consciousness'. Being a philosophical materialist I do tend to think consciousness is most likely an emergent property of biology. South African psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist Prof. Mark Solms has some interesting ideas on the theory of consciousness and dreaming. If you haven't already done so, check out his hypothesis.
Personally, while I think panpsychism is an interesting concept, the idea of some form of cosmic panpsychism (cosmopsychism) just doesn't seem plausible to me.
Having said that though, from a spiritual (you could say religious) perspective, I am an advocate of scientific pantheism (also called naturalistic pantheism), rather than being a pure atheist, because scientific pantheism is a way to coherently bring together some form of spirituality that is still consistent with our scientific discoveries of the physics of our universe (which may be part of a larger multiverse).
Our connection with the grander scale of the Cosmos is undeniable, considering we really are made of star-stuff.
'Not only are we living among the stars in the Universe, the Universe is living within us' - Neil deGrasse Tyson's paraphrasing of his mentor Carl Sagan's quote, 'The Cosmos is within us'...'The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars'.
That in itself is incredibly profound. Whether we are alone or not in the Cosmos, we certainly are a sentient consciousness trying our best to understand the vast Universe from which we emerged'.
Peace to you brother. ☮
'May the Force be with you'. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
The internet and the world itself is full of remarkable treasure troves to be found and here is a great example with this video, I just had to marble at the idea of when you stumble upon such a unique and interesting concept being explored further than what my own mind had fathom.(I thank you for the hard work in putting this video together and gush at the endless possibilities) I like that your video takes a good hard stare at the implied benefits and implications of a yet fully unexplored futuristic reality.
I like to also refer a piece of medium that I found has touched this concept and that is Ghost in the Shell.
"One thing capable of restoring your individuality, after syncing the minds together is.... everyday human curiosity" -Kusanagi, Motoko
The ultimate empathy... shared experiences and memories.
Very interesting!
Quite interesting !
Thank you!
Fascinating! 👍🏻😉
tbh a lot of my most cherished memories werent things *i* experience but rather things i read that others wrote. in a way humans already have developed mind melding. music and art has the ability to create emotional responses we've never felt before, which is why a song youve listened to a thousand times can sound even better the 1001st time after you experienced something new that made you really crave listening to that song. humans already have mixed all our minds into one. its called the internet, and it makes the decision to make itself grow every day, and forces humans to do things that they ordinarily wouldn't do.
Provocative ideas, thx! And yeah, amazing that even today, despite over 50 years later, we still haven't caught up with all the 'implications' yet.
You're welcome! I agree.
Is the narrator Brendan Hughes? What a fascinating concept! Ties in very neatly with the idea of universal consciousness.
Absolutely delightful. I knew of the split brain experiments, but I didn’t realize that this had implications for what’s called the Combination Problem in philosophy of mind.
Basically, if you assume some kind of panpsychism in which matter has fundamental mind-like characteristics, you (perhaps) have to assume that somehow you can combine the “little minds” into greater and greater minds until you get to advanced, concious life. Since our experience of mind is that it is basically and fundamentally unitary, how can you combine more primitive (also unitary) minds to create more advanced, unitary minds?
I don’t think this resolves it, but my unitary consciousness is reeling with the philosophical possibilities.
This is an excellent video, well done! My take is that the examples in this video (split-brain patients, Hogan twins) appear to be instances of mental de-combination rather than mental combination. With the split brain patient we start with a single subject that is unified and whole and when the brain is split then we get the plurality of other centers of awareness that fragment from the whole. With the Hogan twins, it appears as though one organism was in the process of replicating itself in a way that happens with twins (for lack of better terms atm) but didn't quite finish the process. And these instances do not appear to show there is a separate mind that is over and above the plurality of those minds, it's just a connection between minds rather than a new mind being formed via mental combination.
I like how you put that. I'm not sure about the Hogan sisters in this example, but from an idealist or cosmopsychist perspective, I could see how split minds are, as you put it, "a plurality of other centers of awareness that fragment from the whole." With that whole mind/brain being a fragment of a yet larger consciousness.
@@metaRising Thanks for the feedback, well put. I have 1 question for you if you dont mind: are you more of a micropsychist or a cosmopsychist?
@@MonisticIdealism Thanks. I try to keep an open mind to a range of views, though I'm probably more sympathetic to cosmopsychism. My only real confidence is that materialism/physicalism is inadequate to explain consciousness.
@@metaRising You're welcome. Excellent, I find cosmopsychism to be more formidable than micropsychism. It's wise that you keep an open mind on these issues and are willing to explore alternatives beyond physicalism.
This is very interesting woe we have dissociative identity disorder and have 31 different types of alters and consciousness is indeed a mystery. Good video ❤
The podcast has been dormant for a time now. Are there any plans to upload audio editions of these latest videos you’ve made?
There is so much to unpack with this concept. Communal addiction, hemispheric focused training, adding adolescent hemispheres… The possibilities. Its almost too much. I love it. #theluckyisland
i was born with a thalamic bridge ...now i know why ive been able to read /observe others hearts intentions
Seeing that interhemispheric connectivity is related to Theory of Mind activity, I would say that usually one part of the brain is associated with the subject, the self, and the other hemisphere as non-self, and other people. There is still one subject in split brain patients, but the non-self has now become loose and independent.
all memories, regardless of origin, shape us ..but wow, this so opens way to better understanding things like ptsd and autism...
thanks ☆
Living with severe anxiety, panic attacks and ADHD as a very sensitive child (continuing into adulthood), I exist in both an insular world and equally in others, as I developed a highly attuned sense of what others may be feeling or thinking out of fear of being perceived as different, so much so that I've had issues with losing my mind or thinking in the other, which leads to a meshing of intentions, or me simply merging with the other too much, thus I never knew what I wanted most of my life beside time alone, as people overwhelm me and I get anxiety in most situations with others, even if it's just mild. So what I've learned is that I have always been tapping into others thinking as a highly curious person, as a way to escape myself and my overly excited nerves and mind, along with a need to understand how others think, feel and ultimately why they do what they do, as I always felt like an outsider looking in on the world from the sidelines. I have over the past six years transformed my thinking about my anxiety and can now transform my fears into excitement for life as when I was a very young child, but I haven't lost the ability to feel what others are feeling from my deeply empathic/empathetic nature that came about due to my loving heart and constant obsession with the other, both out of flight-or-flight mechanisms and out of pure curiosity with the other. So I guess some people like me are already connected to a global, mass collective consciousness and I find that very fascinating as I connect infinitely with nature and the collective soul of all life. Through recent spiritual experiences, I've felt more and more connected to others in a beautiful, harmonious way and I've been able to see how we are all similar to each other in the way that we can have more compassion for others when they make a mistake, as it could have been you who messed up or was using poor judgment. This video really hit home with me, as I've recently went pescatarian (eight months ago) and want to go mostly vegan, as I feel that it's pure selective blindness to treat animals the way we do as humans and we deep down we know it's not right to mass farm them for profit, but we do it and eat them anyway out of convenience and affordability. Pure understanding, compassion and love for others is becoming whole with all in union, oneness and reunion with all in blissful surrender to all of life in this beautiful heaven on earth and Eden we are so fortunate to live within, yet many can't see it.
Too bad we can't dm on here. I would love to hear more about your journey. It sounds very similar to my own.
@@bezalel5081 That's awesome!! Yes it's defiantly a learning experience and I like to think of life as full of healthy challenges, rather than problems. I try to stay positive for my health and wellbeing, but having anxiety often is certainty not fun. Since I was three I would wake up at night with nightmares and anxiety, it started early for some reason. I hope you are on the other side now of it as well and see it as nerves overly stimulated and adrenaline that becomes an addictive thinking habit and can be consciously self-observed. Also I try to ride out the waves of anxiety without being afraid of them and try to reprogram my mind to think of it as just a normal fleeting thing and it's less sever usually if I reassure myself and try not to make it worse. lol Happy Holidays!! :)
Hey Adrian - I hope you're doing well. I really miss your Ganzfeld/Auto-Ganzfeld video - I used to watch it once a week, and it was one of the videos I'd watch to get me through some pretty bad days. Is there any chance you might re-upload it or make it available for us? I would very much appreciate it - you have no idea how inspired I am by your work.
Thank you Nicholas. Here's a link to the video you mentioned.
ua-cam.com/video/xvFgTsJvV7U/v-deo.html
@@metaRising Adrian, thank you so much! I can't even properly express my appreciation - I love this video and am very happy to be able to watch it again. As some small measure of gratitude, I wanted to recommend a potential case for you to investigate re: consciousness vs. the brain. There is an academic article in The Lancet called "Brain of a white-collar worker" by Dr Lionel Feuillet, MD, Henry Dufour, PhD, and Jean Pelletier, PhD -- in this article, they describe a man who had a very advanced case of hydrocephalus which meant that 90% of the volume of his brain was fluid... and yet he had otherwise "normal medical and neurological history". Other than a slightly lower-than-average I.Q., he was socially well-adapted and was happily married with kids, gainfully employed as a civil servant. 90% of his brain volume was fluid -- but his conscious experience was similar to everyone with normal brains. Fascinating stuff!
Definitely raises some fascinating questions. I love the idea of combining minds to share memories. This could be another way of "passing down" memories through multiple generations. But at the same time, there's good information around the idea that every time we remember something, the memory is changed, so I can imagine it getting more and more inaccurate the more it's passed down, to the point where it would be wholey different from the actual event. In such cases, it seems technology would have to help if we wanted to actually pass down such memories. We already do this with photos and video, but I would assume that VR, and even additional sense recordings might eventually be incorporated. Obviously a tangent from the main topic.
Also wondering if you've read Jill Bolte Taylor's books around her left brain going offline when she had her stroke. Her most recent book postulates four distinct brain characters - right and left cortex characters and right and left limbic characters. It's an interesting take since she further divides our brain into cortex and limbic "personalities."
The conjoined twins seems to prove the opposite: Yes, minds can be joined, but they very much seem to have two separate points of consciousness. The mind is external to consciousness. That minds can be shared is not surprising, but the two sisters definitely seem to be two different selves observed by two different points of consciousness sharing access to one another’s minds.
I see it as supporting the point. Shared and individual consciousness.❤
totally explains why i am always arguing with myself!!!
This is wild
It is a good point that diplomacy would probably work a little better if we could literally see it from the other's point of view!
Thanks. It certainly seems like a possibility based on what we currently know.
Great video, really fascinating! I do feel like we already connect our minds with other minds, via language, music, art, physical touch. It's quite common to feel the sensation of truly understanding someone or really feeling a connection with them. What if your experience of someone else's relayed information (via language, music, art, physical touch) included an element of their experience. Who's to say that an experience can only occur once and only by one conscious entity. The Hogan twins shared an experience, there weren't two experiences when the toy piggy was looked at, only one occurred, but they both had access to it. Maybe that's what happens everyday when we feel that strong connection with someone, we are both accessing the same experience?
Why am I just now hearing about this?
Split brain patients?
I actually saw a more recent paper that I think shows that all these things can be attributed to discoordinatation and not split personality.
Oh wow. PLEASE give a link or reference to this paper, or any article referencing it! I hadn't considered such a possibility & am really intrigued!
I feel like this actually makes case for materialism stronger
Split brain patients claim they are one person, whereas the conjoined twins claim they are separate (I would imagine). What do you make of this? Amazing video. I have to say, a thalamic bridge sounds terrifying, if not permanently traumatizing.
My guess is that having two sets of everything forces an independent perspective. Assuming they don’t suffer from any mental conditions that would cause them to believe otherwise, it makes sense. It’s also not out of the question to assume there are differences between split personality patients and schizophrenics.
Split brain patients do not report any difference between how they perceive themselves before and after the procedure, the two hemispheres do not have two consciousnesses.
You can do anything thing you want in communication with other people if you’re vibrating in the right frequencies.
Doesn't all this point more and more towards our consciousnesses not surviving death?
Perhaps, but I don't know. I actually had a section exploring this which I deleted because I figured people could draw their own conclusions.
Energy or the soul does not dissipate under the law of physics?
Language is the way minds interact
I used to have seizures and was always neuroatypical, but after a TBI in 2017 i experienced radical shifts in personality, memory, and ability. After a lifetime of journaling in long-form sentence structure, i could suddenly only express myself efficiently thru pictures, math, geometry, spatial relationships. All the languages i'd learned mixed together into a lump, i became intermittently ambidextrous, and things like optical illusions radically changed, like an enhanced kind of depth perception. The personality blips are like radical, swift vacillations but it doesn't at all feel like i'd imagine "multiple" or "split" personalities in the classic sense. I always wonder if this is what Peter Sellers felt like--maybe he just had corpus callosum issues.
A bridge between two brains shows that direct connection of brains for information transfer is possible, but that doesnt make the girls one. It's like a really fast usb cable. In the split brain case i am actually not surprised. Conciousness is only in one of the halfs, that's why the information in the other is just "left-over-nonsense" from before the connection was cut. It would mean information can be stored in the brain, but it doesn't mean that conciousness doesn't have it's own, non-localized memory.
I agree that it doesn’t make them one mind. It is philosophically significant in the sense that they reveal that qualia are not inherently private.
Awareness of a previous incarnation is sort of having access to the mind of a different being. Transmission of part of one’s mind to another being is sort of having access to another’s mind as it is completely melted with the mind of the receiver. The receiver experiences it as mind of self.
Anyone else here a fan of
Jonathan Pageau and listened to his conversation with John Vervaeke last month?
Yes. We have no problem accepting that our physical bodies share DNA with other living things so it isn’t unreasonable to suggest our consciousness is also shared.
I'm happy to see science is catching up thanks to those twins. Rudolf Steiner will take it from here
I’m very confused about one thing, can anyone help? If they slice through the corpus callosum, how do the motor impulses from the right hand side of the brain get through to the muscles on the left side off the body, and vice versa, to stimulate their contractions? Would cutting the corpus callosum not paralyse the individual?
Pyramidal tracts intersect in the brainstem, so even when corpus callosum is cut, the fibers responsible for conducting motor impulses are not damaged
There's so many possibilities and things I want to ask and discuss. But I wonder, should consciousness be TEMPORARILY shared and then return to a singular sense of consciousness, would it possibly resemble that of a magic mushroom trip, where the sudden influx of perspectives and changes in the brain could result in either a positive life changing experience, or a terrifying bad trip. Like, could the potential bad memories, experiences and perspective, when shared have the same permanent negative association that the original person had? While vice versa, could someones good perspectives and memories help you in turn deal with your own mental and emotional struggles?
@@incognitotorpedo42 interesting. I tend to agree, however you wouldn't just be experiencing the memory, within your own processing mind, you would be experiencing it fully shared, as they experienced it, correct? I agree that more recent events would likely have a bigger impact. But I feel like it would be somehow transferred because you would experience those memories, those behaviors and lessons (both consciously and unconsciously) learned from the memory, the impact it had on their emotional and psychological well-being. That's just my thinking. Or would it work more like you're able to "move around" together within a shared conscious state? Show and tell of a sort rather than become ONE consciousness for a period of time.
my question is whether can we penetrate our current existence to a higher existence?
such a thalamic bridge is essentially what you see in the movie like Avatar with the ecosystem.
What if combine 2 infants virgin minds? Will the experience be the same or 2 blank minds ready to combine?
I would give so much for anyone to understand what my lifefeels like after 11 concussions.
I have first hand knowledge and can tell you with people that suffer mass seizures, it is as often unsuccessful, and leads to a worsening condition.
I have watched a few of these videos and have been interested to know if these people FEEL like one person or 2. From the descriptions, it seems that they feel like one person. But I've never seen one of them asked that question.
To use the same thinking to understand where the thinking come from is limited to
Truly grasp it. To grasp infinity.
Amazing animal rights activism, great addition in ur edition
We've been doing it for so long. It's just that the feedback has boundaries. I wonder if NeuraLink could help in making society more efficient & resilient in terms of creating a technological hivemind? If it could then I might change my violent stance about it.
There was a time when I felt connected to God by a cord out of my head an after sufficient persuasion who I was connected to, I began to spontaneously download images of buildings crumbling. I told my therapist and she said many people were reporting that, and wrote it in my chart. That was before 9/11 and I recognized what I saw. I had even transferred my job in mental health to the emergency department, telling my new boss something was going to happen. After 9/11 everyone remembered what I said and my therapist showed me my chart. We are all connected.
I planned to buy some weed but just by seeing this now I'm high as fuck. Truly amazing work as always, love your videos. Best wishes from Chile!
I already know the answer to this question. (What would happen if we combine the consciousness of multiple identities)
What I have and many more people do have is technically called (Dissociative Identity Disorder) a mental processessing issue caused in early childhood before we are old enough to form a sense of a definitive self.
This issue causes many independent people/ selves to form within one mind, essentially sharing the same body, but possessing separate conscious awarenesses.
One of the ways to *Heal* a patient with Dissociative Identity Disorder is to combine all (Aspects)/(selves) into one complete whole.
Obviously, not every patient wants to do this (Like me)
But this consistency in people having Dissociative Identity Disorder, and combining the (Aspects)/(selves) is a clear tested way that says YES it is entirely possible.
Dissociative Identity Disorder i feeling has a lot to offer for many who are troubled with philosophical questions.
It is through my own experience of having D.I.D. that we as a unit of selves collectively believe the view of consciousness is infact incomplete, and would suggest something far more mind-blowing than what consciousness means by just itself.
Which side is the real person that existed before the surgery? Very wild!
Imagine law enforcement gaining the capability to mind meld.
This is the plot to the evil within. A man makes a machine for combining conciousnesses, with one host brain. Its a very interesting game.
Why is language only operated in one side of brain? is not most other functions operated in both parts? or what other functions is only operated in what side of brain???
this stuff is so fascinating!!!
Haven't fully watched the video but would say that at the same time it is an interesting matter, connectivity has under the surface, espacally when it comes to the mind, has a specificly wanky character. Much can go wrong and the risk to misuse is big.
Interesting. Transhumanism probably is the key to answer this question.