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You Actually Share Your Brain With a Silent Stranger
CGP Grey
CGP Grey explains split-brain patients, where severing the corpus callosum lets the two hemispheres act independently. He uses this to explore the idea of two minds in one head.
HN returns to it constantly in consciousness and decision-making threads as a clear, entertaining explanation of split-brain.
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