What Is Consciousness?
LEANBACK IS HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoR0bMohcNo&list=PLE3048008DAA29B0A&feature=plpp_play_all Music courtesy of Jake Chudnow: http://www.soundcloud.com/jakechudnow TWITTER: @tweetsau...
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Hey Vsauce, Michael here, and a hemispherectomyis a surgical procedure in which half of a person's brainis removed.It's usually only ever done on very, very young patientsbecause their brains are still plastic enoughthat the remaining half will take on the functionsof the half that was removed.And it's usually done because a young child or a babyis having seizures, and removing the part where the seizures occuris the only solution.But here's my question.If you can live with half a brain,what if I were to take two empty skullsand take one half of your brainand plop it into one body and the other halfand put it in another body,which person would be you?I mean, you are you. You are conscious.You are aware of what is happening to youfro...
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Hey Vsauce, Michael here, and a hemispherectomyis a surgical procedure in which half of a person's brainis removed.It's usually only ever done on very, very young patientsbecause their brains are still plastic enoughthat the remaining half will take on the functionsof the half that was removed.And it's usually done because a young child or a babyis having seizures, and removing the part where the seizures occuris the only solution.But here's my question.If you can live with half a brain,what if I were to take two empty skullsand take one half of your brainand plop it into one body and the other halfand put it in another body,which person would be you?I mean, you are you. You are conscious.You are aware of what is happening to youfro...
