Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "The Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will" video.

  1. There was an Eddie Murphy movie called Dave where his character was a human spaceship piloted by many tiny other Eddie Murphys, first time I saw it it just reminded me of the Numskulls comic strip :D
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  2. Only one hemisphere has the language centre though so writing or gesturing would just be seen as jibberish to the other, Joe explained this in the video where he said some split brain patients were asked to read things in the appropriate field of view (left or write) and only one side saw the writing while the other side blanked it out.
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  3. It's likely because birds are very closely related to dinosaurs and birds actually do have a brain-like nerve cluster in their pelvis that controls their legs.
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  4. You do know that an inner monologue is your own voice though, right? It's not like a subconscious voice or an intrusive thought, it's just you speaking to yourself but with your mouth closed - your inner monologue says only what you want it to, and it's usually reads out anything you are reading. Some people don't have that, they don't think in words, they instead think in concepts or images.
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  5. Sounds like muscle memory, when you do something often enough it becomes second nature and you no longer have to make any effort.
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  6. It's believed to be even more complex than that with each hemisphere holding multiple smaller consciousnesses, Joe goes in to more detail on this towards the end of the video.
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  7. It's possible, but often an imaginary friend is just a naughty kid inventing a scapegoat for stuff that gets broken or eaten.
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  8. But how do you know it's you rejecting the decision? Perhaps it was you that made the decision in the first place and it was in fact the subconscious committee that rejected it? 😉 After all we change our mind all the time and often can't rationally explain why - we just call them hunches.
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  9.  @tomwozny2707  I think you've got off at the wrong exit, mate.
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  10. In many ways they are no different to how we walk, as one hemisphere controls one leg so as babies those hemispheres had to coordinate with one another to get their timing right and to trust that the other hemisphere will keep up it's side of the deal and not let the body fall over. The Hansel twins learned to co-operate, just like our hemispheres had to at one point.
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  11. No one said split brain is natural, nor that only split brain people have no free will, the folks with the split brains were simply how we learned that human consciousness has countless layers and the one that we consider ours might not be the one that makes the decisions. The interpreter makes the decisions after confering with all of the modules in the brain and then it suggests a course of action that we follow because we believe that it is the right one.
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  12. Joe explains in the video that one consciousness is able to see things the primary consciousness does not, and that it can also communicate in it's own way.
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  13. Raised many Hensons with it?
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  14. Misinformation is harmless?
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  15. That sounds more deja-vu than anything else, you weren't thinking about them until the moment they called but your brain convinced you that you were.
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