I would say dual core since the individual parts of the brain are like individual parts of a CPU. A CPU is actually very complex and has dedicated areas that do specific thing like our brain and all those parts come together to form one complete core.
There is! Allegedly. IIRC. Iain McGilchrist was just on Sam Harris's podcast and mentioned something about a painless intervention involving magnetism that can be done in the lab to achieve some split-brain-esque effects.
Considering how internal monologue and thought goes this makes a whole lot of sense. That’s why how we think is often framed as a sort of lecture to ourselves or even a battery of questions. It’s as if we are speaking to someone in our own head sometimes. Because it turns out we are.
Actually no and CGP is wrong about this (along with no studies or data). Left/right brain was disproven a while ago as we found out these “hemisphere” functions are actually scattered across the brain and in concert with different areas. So language isn’t a left brain thing and the right isn’t like creative, etc. He’s operating on faulty data .
Well most of the brain is unknown and many aren't identical mental conditions and all that so it could be true but in most probability it isn't the brains or people in the studies might have only acted that way due to their brains being damaged
@@Darkloid21 I think you're speaking of the faulty notion that the left and right hemispheres of the brain had isolated characteristics such as the left hemisphere being more logical and the right side being more creative. That idea was more or less disproven as electrical patterns observed under live MRI scans showed equal activity in both hemispheres regardless of whether a person recalled truthful data or created fabrications. At least that was one of the studies I was familiar with. However that isn't to say that, different parts of the brain don't actually have different functions and that one hemisphere couldn't hold a function the other couldn't. The ability to speak is usually reserved to the hemisphere that contains both Wernicke's Area and Broca's Area which for most people is located on the left hemisphere, meaning the right side of the body reserves the ability of speech. In corpus callosum surgery where the hemispheres are separated, the left side of the body is observed to be mute. Since it can no longer instantly communicate with the other hemisphere, it will often "disagree" with its other side. I don't know if I would go as far as to say they are separate entities after separation as Grey suggests, but Left/Right brain specialization, at least in this context, is a valid and recognized phenomenon. Grey is not promoting pseudoscience here, there are a number of interesting case studies with videos you can look up on youtube if you have the time and I'd encourage you to take a looksie. :)
One of the really interesting aspects in split brain patients is this: There have been cases in which one brainhalf was devoutly religous while the other was an atheist.
What I think is that despite the halves of your brain being separate, you are still one entity. They are just functionally separate, but the sum of their mechanisms and coordinations creates the experience that is you.
And my left brain's verbal communication skills (along with my right brain's nonverbal skills) are questionable, therefore my social skills are questionable. Lovely right?!
Anyone else thinks this would be a great concept for a si fi story ware someone clones themselves, but the non dominant side of the brain gets copied exposing the a different person then the person that was being cloned?
@@dhayes907 I was thinking more ultimate blackmail where the clone does things that are very out of character for the original person but the onlookers don’t know they are watching a clone.
Not the same storywise, but check out Blindsight by Peter Watts. That book touches on various things like multiple personalities, consciousness and free will. It's a bit of a mindfuck.
@@avw5kt here's also something cool. The sound of this video is split into two. One monotone base line with the same beat throughout the video. The other ear has cymbals and piano and high notes sparkling about randomly in a pleasant manner. If you have an earphone or headset that does surround sound or just a left and right aux, you can notice this when you take one off and listen to the other and doing the same on the other side. And then half way it switches. And then it switched again for a third time.
when you realize that stoners telling you to connect with your inner self and expand your feelings was just them saying have a convo with right brain and see what they think on the matter
This was actually super helpful for people with depression to realize that it's literally impossible to be alone. I wonder if that's why people who meditate frequently are more intelligent? Because as long as their brains not split maybe something about meditation helps right brain talk?
Lmao, I think every commenter missed the joke, as did I for like 2 whole minutes while trying to think of a funny way to tell you that the right brain is mute. Hold your horses is the comment God would've made. Well done, sir. Wait... Is that you God?
Left: "There once was a pale man with dark hair who was very lonely." Right "Why was he lonely?" Left: "No matter how many others he surrounded himself with they could never truly know him as he knew himself." Right: "Did he resent them?" Left: "No, one day he took a blade and split himself in two, right, down, the middle" Right: "So he would always have a friend?" Left: "So he would always have a friend."
@@DarkPortall Not quite true. Studies of victims of accidents where part of or a whole hemisphere of their brain was damaged have shown that one hemisphere CAN pick up skills (e.g. speech) which are generally assigned to the other hemisphere, especially if the subject is young. The plasticity of the human brain is astonishing.
I remember when I was riding my bike towards a small intersection, I was kind of tuned out, just passively keeping track of the street and parked cars in front of me. I knew I was going too fast to comfortably round the corner, and I didn't know if the intersection was red. So without moving my eyes, just tuning in to my periphery, I saw the little red hand showing on the pole. There's a corner up ahead, I need to pull the breaks a bit, and in my periphery I see my hand open and close onto the brakes. But the thing is, I didn't brake because of the light, and I didn't check the light because braking brought me back into the moment. I made those decisions simultaneously. When I think back, I have two memories. One where in the lower corner of my vision my hand stretches out and hits the brakes, and another where in the upper corner of my vision I see the dark green traffic pole with the red hand showing solid. And I remember the moment immediately following was me realizing that I had just had that happen. I know my eyes never moved, and yet the memory with the breaks has no visuals on the light, and the memory with the light has no view of the brakes
So, I have a question that's really bothering me. If someone was fully aware of the science behind this could you teach the other side of your brain different things? Could you raise two people in one body? Could you somehow communicate with the other side of your brain like another human being and have like full on conversations with the other "you"? My mind is like completely blown right now and I have so many questions my head hurts.
I read something on Reddit saying that a split brain can still communicate with itself, but through a slower and longer path. I don’t know if it is true, though
Honestly there are a lot of things i would love to try but are just too risky, including this one, which is why i kinda fantasize about the idea of having some kind of immersive VR that would work this way
The split does not split your personality. Just decisionmaking. Youre still the same person but both halfs of you are separated making decisions done not by both halfs instead of one and both can disagree with each other. Im fascinated by this as i would really love to have a split brain just to understand myself better. It allows you to see more than just the surface of your thoughts and many decisions and disagreements are simply because you yourself dont know what to do so both halfs disagree trying to make the choice fir you. After all your behaviour never changes. You are you no matter what will happen to the brain because scientists still cannot point out what makes you.. you.
@@raphael_santiago i actually spoke to my friend about that few times by the 7 momths and he agrees with me. The reason this is happening is because both halves need to coordinate your decisionmaking. Splitting this ability in half makes you do more than one decision. If the theory of two personalities was real there would be more signs than were actually explained. There is a lot in this video going unspoken. The theory i say is widely accepted as the reason as there is no sign of a second personality inside other than different decisions. They may seem odd to the person who experiences it because they conciousness is able to grasp only one idea at a time. Its much like thinming. Try to think about two things at the same time. Impossible isnt it? Splitting your brain allows you for that but you dont really have the ability to use both halves separately due to the way the whole life you relied on it being whole. And by this unable to split your attention to both. Its like when you do a random thing and dont even understand why you did that. It happems often. Ever took spoon by mistake instead of a fork? Said something you did not want to? Its the same thing. Both halves having a idea but only one going throught. As complicated as our brain is there is not even a exact source of our conciousness or where it is set in the brain but trust me. If you say that there is two of you to anyone who works with this subject he will laugh. Brain is a complicated tool that works coordinated. Imagine your brain as a server. All data going through it both ways to coordinate it. If you severe conection between its parts the parts will not stop working but no longer will be able to know what the other part wants to do and will do their own thing. There is a lot of thing you could compare it to and every single one makes a clesrer picthre that this anomaly is nothing special. Its even a bad thing as it limits your capabilities as you sre limited to two halves not one whole of your complete processing power. While interesting i feel sorry for anyone who needs to deal with things like that.
This is one of the few things that actually creeps me out. Not in a bad way, but in a "do I know myself? No, I dont" way. There is a part of me that is locked away that I can't communicate with. The only way to find it is a surgery that permanently changes who I am. I just don't like the whole situation, but am at the same time fascinated by it.
You are in constant communication with it, people who do not manage to [basically] balance the relationship in a coordinated enough fashion end up in psychiatric care. If you can type with two hands and they make about the same amount of mistakes etc then there is an ok chance you have a perfectly healthy relationship with YOUR SELF>.
Only people with split brains can’t communicate the right brain with the left brain. I guessing your brain isn’t cut, so your right brain is communicating with your left brain and you’re using both, so don’t worry.
I understand this video is simplified for general audiences but it's frustrating as someone with a background in psychology and neuroscience. It's not that there are two brains, your brain is one organ with two halves that communicate to create your experience of consciousness. What then happens in split-brain patients is that because the left and right hemispheres can't communicate, they experience two slightly different versions of their reality. Again, super simplified but it's an important distinction. Because the idea of the right hemisphere as a separate entity from the left is purely science fiction. Also the left hemisphere can process faces just fine, the ffa is a bilateral structure.
My mother had a stroke and she lost the right side. She's still "mom" but she's disabled and can't speak very well. We consider ourselves lucky cause the doctor said it was very high chance she'd forget a lot of ppl. - just remember to hug n tell the ppl you love, that you love them. Shit changes in the blink of a eye.
@@yelezi7950 That made me laugh xD Also, props to @prazed platoon for not taking the joke seriously, there’s a lot of people who’d go ham because of that lmao.
I feel like consciousness is like a soup. If you put it into two bowls you have 2 soups, but combining them gives 1 soup. Soup’s definition also is pretty vague, like consciousness
Superman: "A friend" Eddie Brock: "We... are Venom" Rey: "...I'm Rey" Batman: "I am vengeance... I am the night... I AM... BATMAN!" Left Brain: "I'm you." Right Brain: What he said.
@@ObservantDog Darth Vader:"I am your father... Oh you aren't Luke, this is so embarrassing. Act like this didn't happen, else I will suffocate you. Actually I will do it anyway! "
@Ayah Awad The left brain is responsible for speech, but the right brain is responsible for writing. See at 3:04, the left side of the body (controlled by the right brain) is writing. So nietLars effectively had his left brain tell his right brain to apologise to itself on left brain's behalf.
A quote form Neon Genesis Evangelion: The self has always been composed of two selves. The self which is observed, and the self which observes itself."
The fact that even Grey couldn’t pronounce kurzgesagt brings solace to me! My left brain is, in fact, being mind blown as I watch this! If there are any more in depth videos on how they conducted the tests, the physical procedure, or their findings, I’d greatly appreciate anyone who pointed me in that direction! Mesmerizing concept and awesome video. Just wow
I have brain damage to the right side of my brain, and I find all of this really interesting. While I don't have the "split" effect like shown here, I can't do a lot of the things the right brain does. For example, I can't recognise faces, I have problems with memory and attention, I have no concept of time or distance, and I fail to recognise things on my left side.
@@spiralingsphere3785 well, they are talking about some pretty serious damage that happened. Also, given the candor of the statement, I imagine it's been a while since it happened. So, in short, probably no.
I think stuff like this disproves the “there are two people in your head” thing. I think a more reasonable explanation is just that because your brain’s halves have been separated there’s a bit of a misalignment between your conscious, subconscious, and other brain functions. Both halves are still fully connected to your nervous system, they just lose that communication with each other that would allow you as a person to function efficiently. Think of it as two halves of a computer designated to different functions, you aren’t two people, just two machines.
If you look closely at the end of this video, you'll see illustrations resembling something that might actually be on the Kurzgesagt channel. Coincidence? I think not.
Imagine having a split brain, and you ask someone to share a secret, but they only whisper it in one ear so half of your brain never hears and doesn’t know the secret, and is super frustrated that the other half does.
Good, good, let the dark humor flow through you... ( ಠ ͜ʖಠ) i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/955/571/de9.jpg How the human's brain-hemispheres synergize for optimum operation: Right: *Herp...* Left: *...Derp!* www.lightwinnipeg.org/Spiritual%20Writings/The%20Humour%20and%20Wisdom%20of%20Mulla%20Nasrudin.pdf
@@JaszLcookie i mean weve been around for some time so if were not yet eradicated then whats stopping us now? at first one place we called the world then explored the continent and then the earth, future people might look at us like were looking at medieval people right now.
Left brain: Oh boy, what an interesting video, what do you think about it, brother? Right brain: *looks at left brain with anger as he can't answer the question*
MarkelgurruxDD the right brain can talk with the brain but not the human Dont r/wooosh me *THIS IS FUNNY JOKE U MADE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*
After reading the comment I looked to the left acting like it just happened in my head without even knowing the right brain was being mad at the left brain. Don't question what I did after reading the comment.
I’ve heard a lot of people aren’t able to talk to themselves or have audible thoughts by themselves. Like how a anime character an he heard talking to themselves by the audience, I can do that too but some people can’t and didn’t even know you could Inner monologue is a hell of a thing
As long as there is not a split beyond that, I'd say you're in perfect mental health. I often find myself responding verbally to communication presumably coming across the corpus callosum. I just wish I would keep from blabbing the responses to the world :P
He is wrong because the right brain can simply write "I am here left brain and you can't deny my existence" and there are even people who are born with split-brain and they are totally synchronized. We are the users of the brain, We are not the brain.
@@merlenclownshuffles But they can write with both hands, So if the two split brains can write they can communicate. And that showcases we are not the brain.
Let's just forget the science for a second and appreciate this part: "It's the best pony? I don't know..." I just love CGP Gray for these tiny but awesome parts.^^
Twilight makes sense for Gray's pick: she's scientifically minded, after all. Edit: I love how the top comment has 92 likes. The Herd is not dead, people! Long live the Bronydom!
I keep coming back to this video and I just realized that this could explain “intrusive thoughts” it’s thoughts the other you are having that you’re trying to suppress
I've got a weird thing for some of you to try. I really wanted to learn how to lucid dream recently and remembered this video from years back. I decided "ah what the hell it's worth a shot" and started talking out loud to myself in bed, almost communicating to the other half of my brain. I asked him/her/it to help me lucid dream and a few days later I had my first ever lucid dream. I know it could be a placebo or just results showing after I have been trying to lucid dream for a while, but it felt great. Today I stood in front of the mirror and ended up talking to "myself" for about 10 minutes, telling myself about my life's goals and ambitions, and how I need help with achieving them. I thanked the other half of my brain for helping me lucid dream and I want to see if this actually works. It could be crazy and I indeed may need a shrink now looool talking to myself. But also on the off chance that this is true and it works, I'd be really happy if I discovered it. I also spoke to myself like I'm genuinely speaking to someone, with the belief and conviction someone is there entirely listening to everything you say, it's strange when you don't hear a response but weirdly I feel like I felt a response (I am aware that I could entirely be feeling this myself and it can just be my own confirmation bias but it seemed to help). I also felt really happy after talking to myself, maybe my other half felt glad it got some recognition loool. Feels like this could be a plot of black mirror or something. Maybe I'm crazy too but it strangely doesn't feel that way. My thinking is if there are in fact two of you, why don't you use both of you to make your goals easier? Also the comments on this video tell me there's a lot of open minded people who are more likely to accept this than for me to tell a random stranger haha Basically, if you do try it, start with a smaller goal you have in mind, see if it works out, try to evaluate as subjectively as you can if it was placebo or not, and maybe move onto bigger ones and see if the work is a bit easier. I'd love to hear thoughts and responses, thanks for taking the time to read this.
Have no fear, Grey has pulled a reverse "Humans need not apply", He is hiring humans to increase production. We may see 2 videos a month once grey industries is up and running like an autonomous Tesla.
@@wallacebertolaccini7139 I am us, you are them. Mine is probably the right hemisphere? I keep forgetting my friend's names, well they're twins but have differences but I don't know which ones which
@@kennethtimorang8343 2:35 that's the left brain that has problems with names and faces... Right brain seems to have all of the other useful skills, while left brain gets to write checks that neither side of the brain can pay for by opening its mouth... By the way, left brain is also the more emotional one, as where the right is more logical of the two...
Omg! MY idea is (and ngl brain surgery scares me 🙃) BUT why don’t we get surgery that would change it to whatever other side that isn’t having the seizures- if at all possible??? I am so tired of having them 😩
Would this mean that if someone had their hemispheres separated while also being blind in only their right eye then they would claim that they were blind despite being able to walk around normally.
so to bake your noodle a bit more, basic walking can be coordinated by the spinal cord, and the reason we know this, is because of experiments with cats, when the connection between the spine and brain were cut where signals travel for walking, the cats could walk on a treadmill if the ground moved under them...
Each half of the brain is connected to both eyes, but sees half the image from each: left brain sees the right half from both eyes and right brain sees the left side from both eyes. I'd assume they didn't cut the optic nerves when they did the surgery mentioned in this video, but could find details about it. Also, for the experiments mentioned in this video they didn't ask the person to close one eye or the other, they just made sure that the person focused on the middle and placed things on the right or left.
+Brandon dehart what's interesting is that there's a mental condition that inhibits a person's ability to process the concept of "left." To them, nothing to the left of their center of mass exists.
There's actually language processing on both hemispheres, there just tends to be *more* of it on one side, and after you cut the connection between the two halves of the frontal lobe things get...finicky.
@@DavidJPence Probably? I've not heard of anyone trying that experiment, so be aware it's all speculation. I have heard that stuttering happens because the language processing centers on both sides of your brain are firing out of sync with each other. No idea if that's true, but it sort of makes sense from my layman's perspective.
Man if i ever become a scientist one day imma get one person with split brains, teach them sign language and take notes of what right brain has to say about having somebody else in the head
If you can save only one of two people, and one of them has multiple personality disorder, would it be preferable to pick him to save, because you are effectively saving many different people?
This video would seemingly have you believe that both people contain more than one person - one of them just molds and fuses its people together more convincingly.
Disassociative identity disorder as it is known today (instead of MPD) is very controversial, they changed the name because MPD is misleading, it entails completely separated entities within the same person, some psychologists don't think it exists at all, as such they called it DID as in "the person no longer feels like the personality is their own" but as i say its very controversial, and people with DID still retain the same information regardless of which mental state they occupy, ergo its all the same person but with different MOs of expressing itself. (This is avoiding the philosophical debate of what 'Self' is but thats too big of a debate for youtube :P )
If you can only save one of two groups of people, and one of them, even though it's a group, doesn't act us one, and the members of the other group constantly cooperate, which one would you pick?
Personality is defined by self identity and partially in the lateral prefrontal cortex. Multiple personalities is a malfunction of various parts of the brain, but is a real thing. It is a common occurrence for people with head injuries to temporarily lose their identity or temporarily identify as a different person entirely, usually a friend or celebrity, but sometimes, imaginary friends, or completely made up people. However, we still don't know exactly what causes it, and we have no accurate way to test for it, which is where controversy arises when used as an excuse for a crime.
but its problematic with cases that the personalities work as different entities entirely, even with separate memories. I dated a girl that had identity disorder because of a infancy trauma. at first when she told me, I used to treat her as a single person but with split personality, with 2 completely different MOs depending on the situation. but she clearly didn't like it, she even felt jealous of the other personality when I gave her more attention to one than the other. one even used to get the other out of the way when I was about to say something that I shouldn't, give me a tip, then go back to the void (it was creep as fuck, but very useful). the way she acted was a lot like 2 different people taking turns in controlling a single body. and when I researched a bit about it it, it was clear that there was even more extreme cases. its not for no reason that its so controversial, its something that is really hard to understand unless you live it yourself.
Im curious what would happen if someone with split brains would be given 2 pens and an eyepatch and you would ask him/them while getting one eye off a written question and ask for response in writing and repeat. That would be weird but i think you would have a conversation made with words, symbols and drawing
This genuinely wants me to go through this myself so that I can have a better understanding of this. It sounds so weird and crazy that my own brain(s) can’t comprehend what it would be like without experiencing it for oneself.
Is this why when we dream, we're placed in a setting/scenario our conscious avatars are entirely unfamiliar with? Like we can have a conversation with another entity in our dreams and we can't control what they're saying.
We kinda do have Quad Core brains already. He talked about the two hemispheres, because we have the best data on that, because for some reason, we used to think it was a good idea to cut them off of each other, and nature, unfortunately, had created no natural defenses to a medically licensed lunatic trying to cut your brain in half. But our front and back halves are equally pretty disparate organs. There's no neat place to make the cut, but it's pretty clear from many brain-scans. And, even weirder, there's research that women's front left and right brains, and their back left and right brains actually talk a lot more across that middle divider, but they don't talk front to back as much. Meanwhile, men's front and back right, and their front and back left brains talk each other up all the time, but their four brains stay on their side of the tracks so to speak. Men and women have quad-cores that are wired up differently!
abschussrampe I'm just going along with the "left brain has its mind blown while right brain doesn't give a damn" thing. Sure there's more than enough scientific evidence to disprove my statement but honestly I'm just trying to be comedic here
I mean, it’s how you always worked, so why is it creepy?, Right asked Left answered: it means I dont really control myself Well, it works, so it’s good, *right*? Said Right
Honestly it's actually pretty simple, each half of the brain has certain functions mainly controlling specific side though also controlling a specific other function, normally they communicate in teamwork, thus why you seamlessly do any task (With some exceptions) but when this surgery happens that cuts the lines of communication, both halves function separately, just one can talk and the other not, because there's no more communication they generally do their own thing or try to figure out what the other is doing, they have to otherwise the split brain person shouldn't be able to walk at all.
Teacher: What's your name?
Student: We are Timmy.
We are inevitable - Thanos's Brain
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This is so creepy tho 😂
Lol
Left brain: Ferb, I know what we're going to do today!
Right brain:
My right brain has a British accent
Lol
Lmao
Woooosh me because I don't get this joke
@@iamwill1088 woooosh
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream."
- Right Brain
I loved your channel back when you were active. Very helpful.
I'll remember to hold that book with my left hand, if I ever read it.
zogg!! where have you been!?!?!?!? Have you gotten a new channel? Are you planning new videos? PLEASE RESPOND ZOGG SENPAI.
New Vid ?
In the right brain no one can hear you scream
it’s been 4 years…
i’m still caught in an infinite loop between these 2 videos
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This takes "of course I'm talking to myself it's the only way to have an intelligent conversation" to a whole nother level
Me and our 93 other parts. You have no idea buddy...
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@@solsystem1342 faker
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@@thinginground5179 ?
*So... I'm a dual core?*
Summoner Arthur i died
I think according to how much we understand our brains these days you're kind of a billion core lmao
I would say dual core since the individual parts of the brain are like individual parts of a CPU. A CPU is actually very complex and has dedicated areas that do specific thing like our brain and all those parts come together to form one complete core.
Duel Core, but with Hyper threading between the cores maybe?
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i really wish one could temporarily split their hemispheres. i'd love to see this in action with my own self
I agree it would be awesome but only for a short period
There is! Allegedly. IIRC.
Iain McGilchrist was just on Sam Harris's podcast and mentioned something about a painless intervention involving magnetism that can be done in the lab to achieve some split-brain-esque effects.
@@peterford5408 *furiously coiling wire around a railroad spike*
"yep, electrmagnets. What else?"
@@ymmijx6061 Post-grads in lab coats in the vicinity. (No known examples of the phenomenon have taken place without post-grads in the vicinity.)
Temporarily would be fun. Also, your profile picture is ridiculously epic. What is it?
Considering how internal monologue and thought goes this makes a whole lot of sense. That’s why how we think is often framed as a sort of lecture to ourselves or even a battery of questions. It’s as if we are speaking to someone in our own head sometimes.
Because it turns out we are.
Actually no and CGP is wrong about this (along with no studies or data). Left/right brain was disproven a while ago as we found out these “hemisphere” functions are actually scattered across the brain and in concert with different areas.
So language isn’t a left brain thing and the right isn’t like creative, etc.
He’s operating on faulty data .
Well most of the brain is unknown and many aren't identical mental conditions and all that so it could be true but in most probability it isn't the brains or people in the studies might have only acted that way due to their brains being damaged
@@Trust268 Recent data disproves the “two people” idea.
@@Trust268 The point of the study was damaged brains. Dont use this as an excuse to make the brain a mystery.
@@Darkloid21 I think you're speaking of the faulty notion that the left and right hemispheres of the brain had isolated characteristics such as the left hemisphere being more logical and the right side being more creative. That idea was more or less disproven as electrical patterns observed under live MRI scans showed equal activity in both hemispheres regardless of whether a person recalled truthful data or created fabrications. At least that was one of the studies I was familiar with. However that isn't to say that, different parts of the brain don't actually have different functions and that one hemisphere couldn't hold a function the other couldn't. The ability to speak is usually reserved to the hemisphere that contains both Wernicke's Area and Broca's Area which for most people is located on the left hemisphere, meaning the right side of the body reserves the ability of speech. In corpus callosum surgery where the hemispheres are separated, the left side of the body is observed to be mute. Since it can no longer instantly communicate with the other hemisphere, it will often "disagree" with its other side. I don't know if I would go as far as to say they are separate entities after separation as Grey suggests, but Left/Right brain specialization, at least in this context, is a valid and recognized phenomenon. Grey is not promoting pseudoscience here, there are a number of interesting case studies with videos you can look up on youtube if you have the time and I'd encourage you to take a looksie. :)
Kurzgesagt: What are you?
CGPGrey: You are two.
Well that was easy.
Hehe yeah, nice :D
Hahahaha
Haha exactly what I thought
I was thinking that as well XD
Hahahahaha
The "Who is you? You is two." Quote just seems so poetic.
This takes “my arm is killing me” to a whole new level
wormtail agrees
@@nanananaxhhd4330 sorry but we don’t talk about the traitor here :)
@@mashedpotetoo ok padfoot
not kidding
Is... Is this..
A motherfricking JOJO reference!?
Do you ever think you feel a certain way, but after you write things down, realize your "true underlying" feelings?
This blew my two minds.
Nice profile pic
*SATAN IS A REAL MAN*
I am so sad that you beat me to the comment 🤣😂 kudos
@@finskie212 AND DUCK IS LORD
(I just really want to confuse everyone who replies to that comment XD)
@@thomasward7196 RIP I hate when that happens.
This reminds me of the anti hero "twice" from My hero academia.
So what you’re saying is I’m *NOT* single?
O M G!
Loooooool
Never have been
No... you are both single
Mateusz G :(
One of the really interesting aspects in split brain patients is this: There have been cases in which one brainhalf was devoutly religous while the other was an atheist.
i- what?
Imagine being right brain while left brain becomes a murder
Source please? I'm interested to read/watch more on that!
@@VoVina111 it's just a idea there is no source
@@jowan2749 no I meant for the main comment not your reply
What I think is that despite the halves of your brain being separate, you are still one entity. They are just functionally separate, but the sum of their mechanisms and coordinations creates the experience that is you.
Anybody else notice how when he said "its the best pony" the left hand violently reaches for a different pony?
That's the joke yes
Is Grey a brony after all
The hexagonal Pony is the best of Ponys.
You like that thing? I don't like that thing! WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!
@@DoctorPhileasFragg Guess you watched a ProZD skit first before watching this
Right Brain: The nerd that prepares the whole presentation
Left Brain: The extrovert that does all the talking
Lmao literally
I wish
And my left brain's verbal communication skills (along with my right brain's nonverbal skills) are questionable, therefore my social skills are questionable. Lovely right?!
@@Twisted_Code same
lmao
That transition from CGP Grey to kurzgesagt at the end really felt like traveling to an alternate universe
yes
I know its so fluid
I thought kurzgesagt did this video, finding it at the end after having been wrong... 😂
@@jettdoesrandomstuff4892 do you mean fluent?!
@@bweh455 no
Anyone else thinks this would be a great concept for a si fi story ware someone clones themselves, but the non dominant side of the brain gets copied exposing the a different person then the person that was being cloned?
I like it. Like for some reason, the cloning process does a mirror flip on the whole body making right handed people left handed.
@@dhayes907 I was thinking more ultimate blackmail where the clone does things that are very out of character for the original person but the onlookers don’t know they are watching a clone.
@@pikpikgamer1012 Christopher Nolan wants your location...
That is such a cool idea
Not the same storywise, but check out Blindsight by Peter Watts. That book touches on various things like multiple personalities, consciousness and free will. It's a bit of a mindfuck.
Definitely not me trying to be friends with my right brain
“Hey right brain, didn’t know you existed until now, but you sound pretty cool”
@@avw5kt here's also something cool.
The sound of this video is split into two.
One monotone base line with the same beat throughout the video.
The other ear has cymbals and piano and high notes sparkling about randomly in a pleasant manner.
If you have an earphone or headset that does surround sound or just a left and right aux, you can notice this when you take one off and listen to the other and doing the same on the other side.
And then half way it switches.
And then it switched again for a third time.
@@abramrexjoaquin7513 thanks a lot i didn't notice
when you realize that stoners telling you to connect with your inner self and expand your feelings was just them saying have a convo with right brain and see what they think on the matter
This was actually super helpful for people with depression to realize that it's literally impossible to be alone.
I wonder if that's why people who meditate frequently are more intelligent? Because as long as their brains not split maybe something about meditation helps right brain talk?
@@angelwhispers2060 Unless you have a hemispherectomy.
Left brain: "it's the best pony?"
Right brain: *HOLD ur horses there pal*
Wilson Tizon Left brain: GOD DAMN IT RIGHT BRAIN I ONLY JUST FOUND OUT YOU EXIST AND YOU ARE ALREADY PLAGUING MY EXISTENCE
*Slaps left brain*
Oh my gosh. It's a million times better with the fact he's holding a horse lmao. Good comment right here. It's a gem
@@thecrimsonaxe6037 *laughs in brain*
Lmao, I think every commenter missed the joke, as did I for like 2 whole minutes while trying to think of a funny way to tell you that the right brain is mute.
Hold your horses is the comment God would've made. Well done, sir.
Wait... Is that you God?
"left brain isn't lying"
- left brain
"left brain isn't lying
- left brain"
- left brain
@@zapper333 ??
@@blidea9191 “left brain isn’t lying” Left brain left brain left brain
" "
- right brain
@@mr.weirdlly1454 “left brain”
- left brain
Left: "There once was a pale man with dark hair who was very lonely."
Right "Why was he lonely?"
Left: "No matter how many others he surrounded himself with they could never truly know him as he knew himself."
Right: "Did he resent them?"
Left: "No, one day he took a blade and split himself in two, right, down, the middle"
Right: "So he would always have a friend?"
Left: "So he would always have a friend."
"The Rule of Two, one is none, two is one. If it's important you need a back up." I feel like these words also apply here
but these 2 aren't similar. it's like saying a GPU is a backup for your CPU. it dosen't work
@@DarkPortall This is the kind of conversation I like to see. Made my evening
*Laughs in Sith*
@@DarkPortall Not quite true. Studies of victims of accidents where part of or a whole hemisphere of their brain was damaged have shown that one hemisphere CAN pick up skills (e.g. speech) which are generally assigned to the other hemisphere, especially if the subject is young. The plasticity of the human brain is astonishing.
@@WillemDemmers that also implies dual personalities... Could be terrifying...
My left hand is shaking. I think he never knew what he can do and now a revolution has begun in my body. HELP!
Viva la revolution!
No!!!!!
Your right brain is going to seize the means of production
vuva la revylution!
edit: surry not giid typng left handed yet
@@thatdude9091 oh no
And I thought vsauce was the best way to get an existential crisis.
Kurzgesagt is good for that too. :)
JoyStar they have a playlist named existential crisis
I am in a constant state of existential nihilism.
Hey dont forget exurb1a
@@jebkanada2330 That man can go from peaceful to OH GOD HOLY FUCK LIFE IS MEANIGNLESS
Now I am worried that my right brain isn’t happy. How do I make sure my right brain is happy?
Edit: Just realized my whole brain is unhappy.
I feel that the amount of protein bars CGP Grey has needs to be addressed..
Well then, care to vocalize your concerns?
Hmm I think he’s good
I just noticed it is him in the video. I just presumed it was footage of someone else in an experiment
@@matthewhubka6350 same I figured it out the second time
Hey, I bought like 88 cliff bars at once cause they were on sale
Pink Floyd: "There's someone in my head, and it's not me."
Right Brain: *silence*
ccvcharger Tokyo ghoul flashbacks
K
@Daniel von Strangle me I'll let
Brain damage = cut the wire between the brains
right brain: "i may or may not be the imposter-"
Right Brain: *wants to write an intelligent comment
Left Brain: "Jet fuel can't melt dank memes"
hi why isn’t this the top comment
hi there
Whoah,fancy seeing you here
My right side of brain cant speak english
Right brain is Mario and left brain is Luigi
I remember when I was riding my bike towards a small intersection, I was kind of tuned out, just passively keeping track of the street and parked cars in front of me. I knew I was going too fast to comfortably round the corner, and I didn't know if the intersection was red.
So without moving my eyes, just tuning in to my periphery, I saw the little red hand showing on the pole.
There's a corner up ahead, I need to pull the breaks a bit, and in my periphery I see my hand open and close onto the brakes.
But the thing is, I didn't brake because of the light, and I didn't check the light because braking brought me back into the moment.
I made those decisions simultaneously. When I think back, I have two memories. One where in the lower corner of my vision my hand stretches out and hits the brakes, and another where in the upper corner of my vision I see the dark green traffic pole with the red hand showing solid. And I remember the moment immediately following was me realizing that I had just had that happen. I know my eyes never moved, and yet the memory with the breaks has no visuals on the light, and the memory with the light has no view of the brakes
This makes me feel bad for Right-brain. I think I'll start acknowledging him more often.
That’s just the right brain thinking
James Perry underrated comment
That comment was partly written by right brain..
When you realize this is just fake left brain propaganda
@@andrewmannson7543 lmao
"Who is you in this situation"
Ah yes, just as Grey can take away existential crises, he can also give you them
@Logan Campos apple
Apricot
Mostly gives.
@⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ it was a joke...
two of them actually
The two most infrequent channels I sub to teamed up and posted at the same time!
Not subbed to vsauce i presume?:)
Imb Students Well played. Forgot about them.
Wisecrack is full of great content and pretty frequent in uploads
@Imb Students I think he's talking about Kurzgesagt
Giulio
I know. That was pretty much my point.
So, I have a question that's really bothering me. If someone was fully aware of the science behind this could you teach the other side of your brain different things? Could you raise two people in one body? Could you somehow communicate with the other side of your brain like another human being and have like full on conversations with the other "you"? My mind is like completely blown right now and I have so many questions my head hurts.
You cant teach it per se, but the brain can be modified kind of in a process called neuroplastiicty
Lucid dream. You will be able to communicate to your subconscious and your right brain as long as you expect them to answer you.
I agree that right brain's speaks in dreams. (Images)
I read something on Reddit saying that a split brain can still communicate with itself, but through a slower and longer path. I don’t know if it is true, though
Lucid dreaming seems to be the only choice, but even trying to get into a lucid dream is extremely hard and risky
I bet that if lovecraft would have know this he would have writte an incredibly unsetting horror history
I can already imagine it...
@@perpetualvacuum4310 The other- well, *something* crept out from an unsettlingly broken eyesocket, 'its time i leave', his lips moved on their own...
Instead he went and described things as indescribable and green.
@@panek6443 Very true!
and manage to thoroughly missunderstand the concept and somehow make a non-white/low class person the antagonist
*brain hemispheres get separated*
right brain: “FREEDOM”
*proceeds to annoy left brain*
I would expect not less from my own brain
hah.
*!!!!HahahahahahaH!!!!*
_"Stop hitting yourself! >:]"_
Firaj Nani lmao
Is it wrong that I now *really* wanna split my brain?
Of course it is.
What?
@@ponponpatapon9670 That's exactly the dialogue for me though. And I'm not split. Then again I also tend to talk to myself the instant I'm alone.
I wanna do it too lol
This is my favourite comment on the internet.
Honestly there are a lot of things i would love to try but are just too risky, including this one, which is why i kinda fantasize about the idea of having some kind of immersive VR that would work this way
Me too! I want to ask Rbrain some questions.
The split does not split your personality. Just decisionmaking. Youre still the same person but both halfs of you are separated making decisions done not by both halfs instead of one and both can disagree with each other. Im fascinated by this as i would really love to have a split brain just to understand myself better. It allows you to see more than just the surface of your thoughts and many decisions and disagreements are simply because you yourself dont know what to do so both halfs disagree trying to make the choice fir you. After all your behaviour never changes. You are you no matter what will happen to the brain because scientists still cannot point out what makes you.. you.
I see.Thanks.
Plausible hypothesis but don't phrase your hypotheses as facts.
@@raphael_santiago i actually spoke to my friend about that few times by the 7 momths and he agrees with me. The reason this is happening is because both halves need to coordinate your decisionmaking. Splitting this ability in half makes you do more than one decision. If the theory of two personalities was real there would be more signs than were actually explained. There is a lot in this video going unspoken. The theory i say is widely accepted as the reason as there is no sign of a second personality inside other than different decisions. They may seem odd to the person who experiences it because they conciousness is able to grasp only one idea at a time. Its much like thinming. Try to think about two things at the same time. Impossible isnt it? Splitting your brain allows you for that but you dont really have the ability to use both halves separately due to the way the whole life you relied on it being whole. And by this unable to split your attention to both. Its like when you do a random thing and dont even understand why you did that. It happems often. Ever took spoon by mistake instead of a fork? Said something you did not want to? Its the same thing. Both halves having a idea but only one going throught. As complicated as our brain is there is not even a exact source of our conciousness or where it is set in the brain but trust me. If you say that there is two of you to anyone who works with this subject he will laugh. Brain is a complicated tool that works coordinated. Imagine your brain as a server. All data going through it both ways to coordinate it. If you severe conection between its parts the parts will not stop working but no longer will be able to know what the other part wants to do and will do their own thing. There is a lot of thing you could compare it to and every single one makes a clesrer picthre that this anomaly is nothing special. Its even a bad thing as it limits your capabilities as you sre limited to two halves not one whole of your complete processing power. While interesting i feel sorry for anyone who needs to deal with things like that.
@@raphael_santiago Plausible rebuttal, but don't phrase your rebuttal as fact.
@@frostchain2362 Did you actually think your comment made sense? xD
My comment was neither a rebuttal, nor was it phrased as a fact.
So this is why I/we solve things easier when talking to my/ourselves.
Same
No. Remember, 'talking' is only done by one side
@@ASLUHLUHC3 that's out loud not internally
@@tarantuIas No, using language (out loud or internally) is only done by one side
@@ASLUHLUHC3 ????
Ah, yes. My daily existential crisis, as sponsored by the UA-cam algorithm. Never fails.
for real dude. how can you not question everything you've always taken for real after watching something like this.
My life on a daily basis
@@HEX_17 one step ahead of m8
Me:
Not that much of an existential crisis... I have a new friend... Ima call him Righty
This is one of the few things that actually creeps me out. Not in a bad way, but in a "do I know myself? No, I dont" way. There is a part of me that is locked away that I can't communicate with. The only way to find it is a surgery that permanently changes who I am. I just don't like the whole situation, but am at the same time fascinated by it.
You are in constant communication with it, people who do not manage to [basically] balance the relationship in a coordinated enough fashion end up in psychiatric care. If you can type with two hands and they make about the same amount of mistakes etc then there is an ok chance you have a perfectly healthy relationship with YOUR SELF>.
You could close your right eye and write with your left hand.
Only people with split brains can’t communicate the right brain with the left brain. I guessing your brain isn’t cut, so your right brain is communicating with your left brain and you’re using both, so don’t worry.
@@faioon cites? I am genuinely worried after watching this video and would like to know the truth.
@@juniperburton7693 It's the left and right visual fields that are split, not the eyes themselves.
I understand this video is simplified for general audiences but it's frustrating as someone with a background in psychology and neuroscience. It's not that there are two brains, your brain is one organ with two halves that communicate to create your experience of consciousness. What then happens in split-brain patients is that because the left and right hemispheres can't communicate, they experience two slightly different versions of their reality. Again, super simplified but it's an important distinction. Because the idea of the right hemisphere as a separate entity from the left is purely science fiction.
Also the left hemisphere can process faces just fine, the ffa is a bilateral structure.
I do quite want to experience this, but I don't want to be stuck with a split-brain
I think my left brain agree with you, while my right brain priorities eating chocolate at the moment.
@@antonberglund117 my left brain wants to ooga, while my right wants to booga
don’t worry, i think it grows back eventually?
@@kingbingbong1920 if that were the case I'd actually be up for it
@@DankBoyy00 that is sadly not the case. once split, the corpus callosum cannot not grow back
Right Hand: “oh this cookie seems ni-“
Left Hand: **yoink**
Lol
“GIVE ME BACK MY COOKIE RIGHT BRAIN!”
@@ธนาเดชศุภนัทนพร no
@@ธนาเดชศุภนัทนพร right brain*
@@arianimates6228 GIVE IT BACK YOU SMOL BRAIN!
My mother had a stroke and she lost the right side. She's still "mom" but she's disabled and can't speak very well. We consider ourselves lucky cause the doctor said it was very high chance she'd forget a lot of ppl. - just remember to hug n tell the ppl you love, that you love them. Shit changes in the blink of a eye.
Then don't blink
@@yelezi7950 thought the same thing, been 2 months of no blinking. It works.
@@yelezi7950 That made me laugh xD
Also, props to @prazed platoon for not taking the joke seriously, there’s a lot of people who’d go ham because of that lmao.
@@thatdude9091 with comedy, either everything's okay, or nothing is lol got to be able to laugh at yourself lol
Except don't hug, because covid19
I feel like consciousness is like a soup. If you put it into two bowls you have 2 soups, but combining them gives 1 soup. Soup’s definition also is pretty vague, like consciousness
"Who are you?"
We are I
Superman: "A friend"
Eddie Brock: "We... are Venom"
Rey: "...I'm Rey"
Batman: "I am vengeance... I am the night... I AM... BATMAN!"
Left Brain: "I'm you."
Right Brain: What he said.
@@ObservantDog w h a t
We are the androids sent by cyberlife
WE ARE LEGION
@@ObservantDog
Darth Vader:"I am your father... Oh you aren't Luke, this is so embarrassing.
Act like this didn't happen, else I will suffocate you. Actually I will do it anyway! "
Hey right brain, I’m sorry for being so annoying.
-left brain.
dear left brain
how dare you insult my thoughts
@Ayah Awad The left brain is responsible for speech, but the right brain is responsible for writing. See at 3:04, the left side of the body (controlled by the right brain) is writing.
So nietLars effectively had his left brain tell his right brain to apologise to itself on left brain's behalf.
Dear left brain:
@Ayah Awad If the right brain can not speak, but still understand speech and draw... can it write? can it type?
@Ayah Awad Your left half doesn't know, the right one just doesn't tell you
A quote form Neon Genesis Evangelion: The self has always been composed of two selves. The self which is observed, and the self which observes itself."
Your comment got liked 69 times.
@@pustota7254 Cool :P
@@pustota7254 I ruined the 69 likes.
@@pustota7254 to its way to the next stop, *420*
Another NGE quote I love: "Shinji, you have to become the Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time (2021)."
The fact that even Grey couldn’t pronounce kurzgesagt brings solace to me!
My left brain is, in fact, being mind blown as I watch this! If there are any more in depth videos on how they conducted the tests, the physical procedure, or their findings, I’d greatly appreciate anyone who pointed me in that direction!
Mesmerizing concept and awesome video. Just wow
if it interests you, there is a book called no self no problem which also dives into this sort of stuff. It's neat.
I was sorta surprised but also really interested in this.
I have brain damage to the right side of my brain, and I find all of this really interesting. While I don't have the "split" effect like shown here, I can't do a lot of the things the right brain does. For example, I can't recognise faces, I have problems with memory and attention, I have no concept of time or distance, and I fail to recognise things on my left side.
Are things better now?
@@spiralingsphere3785 well, they are talking about some pretty serious damage that happened. Also, given the candor of the statement, I imagine it's been a while since it happened. So, in short, probably no.
Thank you for sharing your experience
I have a couple of these things but the reason for me is that I dont always pay attention to stuff
Guess ignorance is scarier than I thought…
I think stuff like this disproves the “there are two people in your head” thing. I think a more reasonable explanation is just that because your brain’s halves have been separated there’s a bit of a misalignment between your conscious, subconscious, and other brain functions. Both halves are still fully connected to your nervous system, they just lose that communication with each other that would allow you as a person to function efficiently. Think of it as two halves of a computer designated to different functions, you aren’t two people, just two machines.
*moves mouse
"Why'd you move the mouse?"
"I dont know, I've always loved rodents"
lmaoo wtf
They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
@@uilulyili2026 It's a joke referring to the separate halfs of the brain
Tom and Jerry haha
Sub box :
Kurzgesagt: Who are you?
CGP Grey: You are two
This guy gets it
GreatBomb126 Fr!
If viewed the other way it's "You Are Two"... "Who Are You".
me too thanks
If you look closely at the end of this video, you'll see illustrations resembling something that might actually be on the Kurzgesagt channel. Coincidence? I think not.
Imagine having a split brain, and you ask someone to share a secret, but they only whisper it in one ear so half of your brain never hears and doesn’t know the secret, and is super frustrated that the other half does.
having an existential crisis while laughing hysterically wtf is going on
I’m currently crying while drinking hot coco in the dark
@@maxiluvsyou__ The room you're in isn't actually dark, righty just commandeered the optical stream in an act of revolt.
You see it is your left brain freaking out about the obvous again. Me being the right already knows this and only I am you.
new york isnt dope at all
Good, good, let the dark humor flow through you... ( ಠ ͜ʖಠ)
i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/955/571/de9.jpg
How the human's brain-hemispheres synergize for optimum operation:
Right: *Herp...*
Left: *...Derp!*
www.lightwinnipeg.org/Spiritual%20Writings/The%20Humour%20and%20Wisdom%20of%20Mulla%20Nasrudin.pdf
The scary part is we know nothing about consciousness yet and this is all probably going to be explained in a couple hundred years.
or never..also there's a chance we might perish before we cracking the mystery of conciousness
We already understand a lot
@@ahmadhassan8466 ? like what
@@JaszLcookie i mean weve been around for some time so if were not yet eradicated then whats stopping us now? at first one place we called the world then explored the continent and then the earth, future people might look at us like were looking at medieval people right now.
@@CharmedReally7 the capabilities are the same its just that current humans are lucky
Left brain: Oh boy, what an interesting video, what do you think about it, brother?
Right brain: *looks at left brain with anger as he can't answer the question*
MarkelgurruxDD the right brain can talk with the brain but not the human
Dont r/wooosh me
*THIS IS FUNNY JOKE U MADE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*
r/ihatetheRWoooshmeme
r/Iwishtheabovecommentwasarealsubreddit
After reading the comment I looked to the left acting like it just happened in my head without even knowing the right brain was being mad at the left brain.
Don't question what I did after reading the comment.
Right brain: _laughs at the comment_
Left brain: *stares akwardly*
Is there a way to temporarily block communication between hemispheres in a safe way? If so, would you want to try it?
Left brain: picking random flavor
Right brain: slaps it out of left’s right hand and gives a mint chocolate
Right brain is clearly superior
Similar to how right wingers are superior than left wingers
@@levranz1054 there were no political connotations to that message and you don’t have to make it so
@@Sgt_ioiwsl what did it say?
-probably right brain
Right brain is always _right_
Well, this help explains why talking to myself feels totally normal...im just talking to my best friend, my right brain lmao.
You know them you love them right brain
I’ve heard a lot of people aren’t able to talk to themselves or have audible thoughts by themselves. Like how a anime character an he heard talking to themselves by the audience, I can do that too but some people can’t and didn’t even know you could
Inner monologue is a hell of a thing
Plot twist your voice is left and your internal voice is right
Yea
As long as there is not a split beyond that, I'd say you're in perfect mental health. I often find myself responding verbally to communication presumably coming across the corpus callosum. I just wish I would keep from blabbing the responses to the world :P
This means no one is forever alone!
I still can find a way to be lonely
Life finds a way
even brians needs a friend #bobross
Oh yeah haha....
Well it's really no different from talking to urself normally, having two brains.
but it also means any two can be forever alone!
There's something about this video that's awakening a deep, primal existential dread in me. Great work, Grey!
He is wrong because the right brain can simply write "I am here left brain and you can't deny my existence" and there are even people who are born with split-brain and they are totally synchronized.
We are the users of the brain, We are not the brain.
@@merlenclownshuffles But they can write with both hands, So if the two split brains can write they can communicate.
And that showcases we are not the brain.
Alternative title: Left Brain Is An Idiotic Kidnapper Holding Right Brain Hostage
And all of that without even knowing it.
Said the left brain
...
@William Michaels I'm sorry Im useing my rghit hand so you know.
slimey boi i'm using both at the same time
This isn't creepy. This isn't adorable.
*This is fucking awesome.*
Catique I actually kind of wish this would happen to me, but not knowing my own family would suck.
@@bobjones6791 who tf thought this was adorable?
I think it's all three.
and it’s creepy
Ikr
Two brains, that just makes me-
*clumsily puts on dollar store sunglasses*
-twice as awsome
Yeahhhhhhhhhh!
Same here except for me 0x2 is still zero 👉😎👉
@@stuff2328 _Ooh, self burn! Those are rare!_
We're a plural system *puts on 60 pairs of sunglasses.*
_Other hand violently chucks them off in favor of another pair_
this is an infinite loop of watching two videos over and over again
When you tap your head after thinking of something smart it’s just left brain giving itself a shoutout.
*right brain
actually i only tap my head with my left hand so clearly its right brain saying hey i thought of that!
Soooo... like DID
@@Mcskittelybiscuts if you tap with the left you’re praising the left side of your brain no?
@@salex354 No, the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body and vice versa. I know it’s confusing but that’s how it works.
Let's just forget the science for a second and appreciate this part:
"It's the best pony? I don't know..."
I just love CGP Gray for these tiny but awesome parts.^^
We're top chicken.
Twilight makes sense for Gray's pick: she's scientifically minded, after all.
Edit: I love how the top comment has 92 likes. The Herd is not dead, people! Long live the Bronydom!
TWILIGHT!!!! cgp confirmed brony after all these years.
+Paul Ocone well, both are INTJ's
First MLP ref in a while tho.
Still, the fact they exist is cool.
Him: who is you,you is two
*My 2 brain cells: Ight Im outah here*
Now you know that there is two and not one
@@humter one in each
Who that boy, who him is
Michael Reeves finally went full meme
*4 braincells
I keep coming back to this video and I just realized that this could explain “intrusive thoughts” it’s thoughts the other you are having that you’re trying to suppress
Friend: what do you want to eat?
Right brain: the souls of-
Left brain: a bagel
Right Brain: what no!
Left brain: make that 2
Right brain: I was gonna say souls of children... but ok
THE INNOCENT
@Project Guest YT left brain: save it for later...the best is yet to come my friend
The souls of a bagel... nice choice
I remember this from somewhere but I don't remember
I've got a weird thing for some of you to try. I really wanted to learn how to lucid dream recently and remembered this video from years back. I decided "ah what the hell it's worth a shot" and started talking out loud to myself in bed, almost communicating to the other half of my brain. I asked him/her/it to help me lucid dream and a few days later I had my first ever lucid dream. I know it could be a placebo or just results showing after I have been trying to lucid dream for a while, but it felt great.
Today I stood in front of the mirror and ended up talking to "myself" for about 10 minutes, telling myself about my life's goals and ambitions, and how I need help with achieving them. I thanked the other half of my brain for helping me lucid dream and I want to see if this actually works. It could be crazy and I indeed may need a shrink now looool talking to myself. But also on the off chance that this is true and it works, I'd be really happy if I discovered it. I also spoke to myself like I'm genuinely speaking to someone, with the belief and conviction someone is there entirely listening to everything you say, it's strange when you don't hear a response but weirdly I feel like I felt a response (I am aware that I could entirely be feeling this myself and it can just be my own confirmation bias but it seemed to help). I also felt really happy after talking to myself, maybe my other half felt glad it got some recognition loool. Feels like this could be a plot of black mirror or something. Maybe I'm crazy too but it strangely doesn't feel that way. My thinking is if there are in fact two of you, why don't you use both of you to make your goals easier? Also the comments on this video tell me there's a lot of open minded people who are more likely to accept this than for me to tell a random stranger haha
Basically, if you do try it, start with a smaller goal you have in mind, see if it works out, try to evaluate as subjectively as you can if it was placebo or not, and maybe move onto bigger ones and see if the work is a bit easier. I'd love to hear thoughts and responses, thanks for taking the time to read this.
I've been trying to lucid dream for a while with no success, I'll have to try that! Maybe right-brain can help me out there.
EchoFlower Productions to lucid dream what id do is lay naked in a tub without water.
Thats sooo cool 🤩
ive been trying to lucid dream and i'll use this! thank you!
If your brain has not been split, right brain already knows what left brain is doing. In a way, you're literally telepathic.
Here we see the wild CGP Grey video. Pay close attention, they are rare sightings.
Have no fear, Grey has pulled a reverse "Humans need not apply", He is hiring humans to increase production. We may see 2 videos a month once grey industries is up and running like an autonomous Tesla.
Really?
+Charlie Snowball yup! You should listen to his podcast (Hello Internet, Cortex) he goes into more explanation there.
*****
I do listen to Hello Internet, yet I've heard nothing about this.
+24OscarM
Dear god, I'm so far behind in Cortex…
Thanks!
All I know is someone comes up with these CRAZY dreams every night, and it ain’t me.
Maybe the right brain communicates using symbols? just like a mute person using sign language.
No, it is you.
@@matttejada7381 you literally blew my mind.
@@voltsiano116 It both is and isn’t, but if we stop defining “yourself” as the voice in our head alone, we’ll truly be set free
That's me
*Can you make a video on how to kill left brain? -From Right Brain*
Your
xox
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Left Brain: WTF
Aryamaan Singh Actually it would be
*picks up knife and holds it to left side of head*
It would be more like
"Ca ae a vde w t eft bra Fr Rgt Bra"
Aryamaan Singh my brain did something weird when it read that 😨
Grey : "Who is You?"
Master Yu : "I am Yu"
Rush hour 3
Lmao
No , serious who is you?
@@wallacebertolaccini7139 I am us, you are them. Mine is probably the right hemisphere? I keep forgetting my friend's names, well they're twins but have differences but I don't know which ones which
@@kennethtimorang8343 2:35 that's the left brain that has problems with names and faces... Right brain seems to have all of the other useful skills, while left brain gets to write checks that neither side of the brain can pay for by opening its mouth... By the way, left brain is also the more emotional one, as where the right is more logical of the two...
Seriously, as someone with epilepsy, I definitely feel like I have no control over my mind.
Omg! MY idea is (and ngl brain surgery scares me 🙃) BUT why don’t we get surgery that would change it to whatever other side that isn’t having the seizures- if at all possible??? I am so tired of having them 😩
@@Shelbydalestudio Same. I could be out for 5 min or 5 days, And i wouldn't know the difference it's nuts
Would this mean that if someone had their hemispheres separated while also being blind in only their right eye then they would claim that they were blind despite being able to walk around normally.
*EXCUSE ME, WHAT?!!*
They probably did this experiment (covering the right eye, not blinding it)
Damn
so to bake your noodle a bit more, basic walking can be coordinated by the spinal cord, and the reason we know this, is because of experiments with cats, when the connection between the spine and brain were cut where signals travel for walking, the cats could walk on a treadmill if the ground moved under them...
Each half of the brain is connected to both eyes, but sees half the image from each: left brain sees the right half from both eyes and right brain sees the left side from both eyes. I'd assume they didn't cut the optic nerves when they did the surgery mentioned in this video, but could find details about it. Also, for the experiments mentioned in this video they didn't ask the person to close one eye or the other, they just made sure that the person focused on the middle and placed things on the right or left.
My minds were just blown
XD
* right brain roll eyes *
Just the left eye.
Or Split
+Brandon dehart what's interesting is that there's a mental condition that inhibits a person's ability to process the concept of "left." To them, nothing to the left of their center of mass exists.
What if you know sign language? Would right brain be able to "speak" using the hand it controls?
There's actually language processing on both hemispheres, there just tends to be *more* of it on one side, and after you cut the connection between the two halves of the frontal lobe things get...finicky.
@@treyslider6954 So there's a chance right brain would be able to speak in sign language?
Also thanks for answering, I appreciate it
@@DavidJPence Probably? I've not heard of anyone trying that experiment, so be aware it's all speculation. I have heard that stuttering happens because the language processing centers on both sides of your brain are firing out of sync with each other. No idea if that's true, but it sort of makes sense from my layman's perspective.
@@treyslider6954 yeah that makes sense, too bad we can't really test this
Man if i ever become a scientist one day imma get one person with split brains, teach them sign language and take notes of what right brain has to say about having somebody else in the head
0:33 I can just imagine if they could talk 😂
“Ooo, this looks yumm- “
*”no”*
“Wha- ok. Lemme just get that back-“
*”NO”*
so we're never TRULY alone. that is both terrefying and comforting at the same time
He knows my history, oh shi-
@@JohnMkrv Or maybe *he's* the weird one who made you search whatever you searched, hm?
@@JohnMkrv bro wdym he its YOU just one side of you together you make the joined you
Nope,that's still you,brain is working like a supermassive computer,and your counsciousnes is operating it.
Definitely comforting.
Kurgezagt: What are you?
CGP Grey: You are two
Grey just answered his question
Smartest comment.
3:46 two of you are watching this video.
Me: closes one eye
Also me: not anymore
Genius 😂😂😂
Actually, unless you're split brain, the hemisphere you tried to block from viewing can just use the other eye, since they're connected.
Thaaaat's...
Not how that joke works.
@@radughita1992 Wow.
close 2 eyes
When I first saw that video 6 years ago I LOST MY SH1T.
I never forgot that ever since
If you can save only one of two people, and one of them has multiple personality disorder, would it be preferable to pick him to save, because you are effectively saving many different people?
This video would seemingly have you believe that both people contain more than one person - one of them just molds and fuses its people together more convincingly.
Disassociative identity disorder as it is known today (instead of MPD) is very controversial, they changed the name because MPD is misleading, it entails completely separated entities within the same person, some psychologists don't think it exists at all, as such they called it DID as in "the person no longer feels like the personality is their own" but as i say its very controversial, and people with DID still retain the same information regardless of which mental state they occupy, ergo its all the same person but with different MOs of expressing itself.
(This is avoiding the philosophical debate of what 'Self' is but thats too big of a debate for youtube :P )
If you can only save one of two groups of people, and one of them, even though it's a group, doesn't act us one, and the members of the other group constantly cooperate, which one would you pick?
Personality is defined by self identity and partially in the lateral prefrontal cortex. Multiple personalities is a malfunction of various parts of the brain, but is a real thing. It is a common occurrence for people with head injuries to temporarily lose their identity or temporarily identify as a different person entirely, usually a friend or celebrity, but sometimes, imaginary friends, or completely made up people. However, we still don't know exactly what causes it, and we have no accurate way to test for it, which is where controversy arises when used as an excuse for a crime.
but its problematic with cases that the personalities work as different entities entirely, even with separate memories.
I dated a girl that had identity disorder because of a infancy trauma. at first when she told me, I used to treat her as a single person but with split personality, with 2 completely different MOs depending on the situation. but she clearly didn't like it, she even felt jealous of the other personality when I gave her more attention to one than the other. one even used to get the other out of the way when I was about to say something that I shouldn't, give me a tip, then go back to the void (it was creep as fuck, but very useful).
the way she acted was a lot like 2 different people taking turns in controlling a single body. and when I researched a bit about it it, it was clear that there was even more extreme cases. its not for no reason that its so controversial, its something that is really hard to understand unless you live it yourself.
If we have two separate intelligences... THEN I HAVE A FRIEND!!!!
Too bad your friend can't talk though... I wonder if in a split-brain the two could talk to each other through writing?
JoyStar, that’s a really interesting idea.
Aaron Teitelbaum wrong....but at the same time.......not wrong
you dont have a friend you have a slave that has to obey you
finally, everyone has a friend in themself
I didn’t want to have and Existential crisis today yet here I am
no. you *two* are having an existential crisis
...*screams*
Im curious what would happen if someone with split brains would be given 2 pens and an eyepatch and you would ask him/them while getting one eye off a written question and ask for response in writing and repeat. That would be weird but i think you would have a conversation made with words, symbols and drawing
That would be pretty intresting as we dont know if other half can have different personality and way of thinking and hosing things
You didn't ask for this, you didn't choose this, yet there it is. And it's treated no differently, than being... normal? I guess?
“Man is not truly one, but truly two”- Jekyll and Hyde
So basically, we're those robots from Pacific Rim. Cool.
Well thats true
And the Jaeger robots are actually four minds, not two. Interesting.
Hol tf up
That's exactly who we are. Damn if this isn't mindblowing!!
LRed13 I’m fairly certain that was inspired by this phoemenon.
If I had a video for every time Grey said “that’s a story for another time” I would never need any other UA-cam channel ever.
How about In A Nutshell?
So my brain runs in SLI?
AyyMD
+Daniel Pergi must be a hothead then.
It's sweet we are liquid cooling the whole system anyway.
Thought the same thing.
Where can I buy more bridges? I want to go 4 way.
This genuinely wants me to go through this myself so that I can have a better understanding of this. It sounds so weird and crazy that my own brain(s) can’t comprehend what it would be like without experiencing it for oneself.
that is your left brain talking (typing?)
Is this why when we dream, we're placed in a setting/scenario our conscious avatars are entirely unfamiliar with? Like we can have a conversation with another entity in our dreams and we can't control what they're saying.
So you speak with... *You* ? That's deeply creepy. That's a good theory
@@alerissystemes no, it's the right brain fantasy, ignore it.
Also should be our subconsciousness I guess. Now it finally makes sense. Thanks to this video
You just gave me a lot to think about ma man
Also you met them
Basically, we have a Dual Core Brain.
I for one welcome our Quad Core brain alien overlords.
lol
meanswhile, there are already decacores outside there
Damn, i'll just let my Xbox think in my place
lol yes!
We kinda do have Quad Core brains already. He talked about the two hemispheres, because we have the best data on that, because for some reason, we used to think it was a good idea to cut them off of each other, and nature, unfortunately, had created no natural defenses to a medically licensed lunatic trying to cut your brain in half.
But our front and back halves are equally pretty disparate organs. There's no neat place to make the cut, but it's pretty clear from many brain-scans. And, even weirder, there's research that women's front left and right brains, and their back left and right brains actually talk a lot more across that middle divider, but they don't talk front to back as much. Meanwhile, men's front and back right, and their front and back left brains talk each other up all the time, but their four brains stay on their side of the tracks so to speak. Men and women have quad-cores that are wired up differently!
I found this video incredibly creepy... and at the same time, I didn't.
Looks like your right brain half is special and able to influence the emotions of your left.......
abschussrampe I'm just going along with the "left brain has its mind blown while right brain doesn't give a damn" thing. Sure there's more than enough scientific evidence to disprove my statement but honestly I'm just trying to be comedic here
you mean "deeply creepy"
This is the tripiest video I have ever seen, and yet somehow it makes complete sense
I mean, it’s how you always worked, so why is it creepy?, Right asked
Left answered: it means I dont really control myself
Well, it works, so it’s good, *right*? Said Right
Honestly it's actually pretty simple, each half of the brain has certain functions mainly controlling specific side though also controlling a specific other function, normally they communicate in teamwork, thus why you seamlessly do any task (With some exceptions) but when this surgery happens that cuts the lines of communication, both halves function separately, just one can talk and the other not, because there's no more communication they generally do their own thing or try to figure out what the other is doing, they have to otherwise the split brain person shouldn't be able to walk at all.
i watched the video also