The story of split minds

The story of split minds

Cut the link between the two parts of the brain

One of the scientific articles talked about the story of one of the patients is very strange, the patient is half an atheist and the other half is a believer, and to understand the meaning of the last sentence continued reading the article.

In the past there was something widespread among scientists and neurologists, that the treatment of epilepsy cases is to separate the right brain from the left half by cutting the link between the two halves in a logic called corpus colluson, and for more than 40 years the scientific community has been using this way to treat epilepsy patients, Despite its difficulty and severity, it used to reduce the symptoms of epilepsy significantly, and that epileptic seizures came randomly and without precedent.

One of the patients got a case of epilepsy in an oven and fell and burned some parts of his body because the seizures come at any time and cannot be controlled and therefore there were many people ready to perform that process and the link between the two halves of the brain.

If we focus a little on the meaning of cutting the link between the two parts of the brain, we find a very dangerous and terrifying meaning, meaning that the first half does not know what the other half thinks,

Some of the patients who had this procedure used to spend hours to take and do some decisions, because the right hemisphere in the brain is responsible for the left side of the body and the left half of the brain is responsible for the right side of the body, and since the two hemispheres are separated from each other and there is no longer anything that connects them, then each Part of them began to work on its own, like having two people in one body. Each half of the brain controlled its own half of the body.

Brain lobe properties

One of the scientists in one of the conferences in the largest institutions responsible for the brain, university of california san diego, the university that has the most important brain, Henry Moleison, a patient mother in the history of understanding memory.

The important thing is the scientist suggested a very intelligent idea, which is when he wanted a specific answer from the right half of the brain he was whispering in the patient's left ear, and vice versa when he wanted a specific answer from the left half of the brain he was whispering in the right ear

Here the response of the left part of the brain is through the mouth and mouth, because the left part of the brain is responsible for the body's media system, which is responsible for the language

• As for when we want to interrogate the right part of the brain, we use the left hand, then the right part of the brain was chosen (right, wrong, I don't know)

At the end of that lecture, that scientist suggested an existential question: Who is the half that gives us that person ?????

Research Micheal Gazzinga

Unfortunately, all of these experiences and ideas were not published in any scientific paper according to what I searched for, so it was a game for me to find academic criticism on that speech, and this does not deny the fact that the scientist Micheal Gazzinga worked for more than 40 years and who published more than 600 papers This scientist was doing one thing in his life is finding people who have performed the brain hemispheres, and they are conducting research and studies

And terrifying experiences, and through his experiences he noticed that when we give one of the patients a painting of the artist Archimboldo to see with his right eye, those plates are faces of fruits and vegetables, and when we ask him what he sees he answers that he only sees vegetables and fruits, because the right part of the brain is responsible for the perception of faces and in this Case left eye did not see that plate and therefore the image did not reach the right hemisphere of the brain, and that the left hemisphere was the one that the image reached and he could not perceive the faces.

Then Gazzinga noticed another amazing thing, when we say to the right part of the brain that he grabs a certain thing with his left hand and we ask the left part why is he holding that thing? He was inventing stories

For example, if we say in the left ear connected to the right side of the brain that he holds an apple in his left hand and then we ask the person why you are holding the apple he says that he held it because he is hungry, knowing that he did not hold it for that reason in the original

It is clear that the right half was inventing reasons to explain the things in front of it even though it had no role in holding that thing.

Watch this video to understand more

Read more scientific research here