Comment by throw310822
5 days ago
> I get the impression that the authors of the paper have some kind of woo (nonmaterialist) view of consciousness.
Indeed:
"Our findings, however, reveal that although the two hemispheres are completely insulated from each other, the brain as a whole is still able to produce only one conscious agent."
Which is materially impossible, given the premise.
> although the two hemispheres are completely insulated from each other
How confident are we in this? Both hemispheres talk to singular organs, for instance.