The questions that arise from split-brain experiments.
Good afternoon, Your Honor,
I recently read about the experiments conducted by neuroscientists in the 1960s and 1970s on epilepsy patients who were treated by crossing the "bridge" that connects brain activity on the right and left sides of the brain. I'm sure you've heard about this too. In any case, in the experiments, the patients continued their lives as usual, but there was a strange phenomenon that revealed that each side of the brain has its own character and no independent consciousness. For example, when the patient is asked whether he believes in God, he will answer in the negative (the left side is responsible for speech, so the left side is the answer), but when the patient is shown the same question on a page in the field of vision of the right eye (so that the right side can answer by marking yes or no on the page because again the right side cannot speak), the patient answered in the affirmative. There were also cases where patients wanted to wear a certain shirt with one hand and the other would throw it at them.
My question is this: What kind of accountability does that person receive, since it seems as if within this person there are two consciousnesses with different opinions and different decisions. Can we take this further? Does one side of the brain go to heaven and the other side to hell? And in general, what does this whole separation of consciousness mean and does it contradict the existence of a soul?
(The series of experiments is called the split brain experiment)
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