Reincarnation as a trivial scientific fact

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Split brain does not lead to split consciousness

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Quote from ScienceDaily, Jan. 2017:

A new research study contradicts the established view that so-called split-brain patients have a split consciousness. Instead, the researchers behind the study, led by UvA psychologist Yair Pinto, have found strong evidence showing that despite being characterised by little to no communication between the right and left brain hemispheres, split brain does not cause two independent conscious perceivers in one brain.
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The reason is obvious:

Cutting the lines of communication between the two sides of a brain (split brain patients) has incredibly few consequences. Primarily it is the soul which continues maintaining the coordination of the two sides. The regenerative powers after brain injuries show that neurons and neuron groups can take over new functions and that the connection between soul and brain is not rigid but flexible. (Source)
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Only by ignoring our philosophical heritage of thousands of years, such a strange idea that one consciousness can be split into two was able to become mainstream.

Cheers, Wolfgang

A compilation of my posts of this thread:
Biological Evolution by Reincarnation - a Trivial Scientific Fact?

 

[Reality Check]

This post has been triggered by the thread Split brain does not lead to split consciousness

Quote from ScienceDaily, Jan. 2017:

A new research study contradicts the established view that so-called split-brain patients have a split consciousness. Instead, the researchers behind the study, led by UvA psychologist Yair Pinto, have found strong evidence showing that despite being characterised by little to no communication between the right and left brain hemispheres, split brain does not cause two independent conscious perceivers in one brain.
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The reason is obvious:

An obviously deluded web site has no reasons, wogoga. The fantasies there are nothing to do with the science stated in the article, this thread or the real world.

This is the easily understood fact that scientists used to believe that patients who had a full callosotomy (e.g. to relieve epilepsy) so that their brains were split also had split consciousness. That is the scientific usage of consciousness, not fantasies about it. Consciousness in this context means that the patients had "two independent conscious perceivers" or

the textbook notion of two independent conscious agents: one experiencing the left visual field and controlling the left hand, and one experiencing the right visual field and controlling the right hand

This admittedly limited study of 2 patients throws doubt on this since

To the researchers’ surprise, the patients were able to respond to stimuli throughout the entire visual field with all the response types: left hand, right hand and verbally.