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When you split the brain, do you split the person?

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Re: When you split the brain, do you split the person?

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> The brain is perhaps the most complex machine in the Universe Do you really know what's there in the entire universe?

No, hence "perhaps". The meaning and intent of the sentence is entirely clear so I don't really see what good this sort of pedantry does.

Re: When you split the brain, do you split the person?

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> But without the corpus callosum the hemispheres have virtually no means of exchanging information

They can communicate physically though. Each half of the brain can access the eyes and control various parts of the body, they could make the body do things that they could see/hear in order to act as a basic messaging channel. The conscious part of the brain could be completely oblivious to these subtle physical channels.

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