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What is consciousness?

This Will Blow Your Mind

By Saqib RahmanPublished 4 years ago • 4 min read

Hemispherectomy is a surgical procedure in which half of a person's brain is removed.The most common reason it's performed is because the patient has seizures, and removing the part where the seizures occur is the only solution. But here's my question. If you can live with half a brain, what if I were to take two empty skulls and take one half of your brain and plop it into one body and the other half and put it in another body, who would be you? I mean, you are conscious. You are aware of what is happening to you from the perspective of yourself. Think about it this way: if you just stare at something and kind of feel what it feels like to be you, it feels a little bit like you're a thing inside a body looking out through the eyeballs. And nobody else on Earth will ever see the world from that position- even if they have your same amount of brains as you do. This awareness of your own experiences, the awareness that you are having them, makes up what we call consciousness.

In any case, if I somehow happened to take your mind and split it into two what's more, put it into two distinct individuals, could the two of them be new individuals who were cognizant? Indeed, one of the most incredible spots to begin while characterizing cognizance and grasping it is in any case things that we concur are not cognizant. For example, Cleverbot. Cleverbot.com is an astounding site where a PC program will answer your inquiries actually cunningly in any case, simply because it is customized to do as such. We wouldn't consider it cognizant since it doesn't have a feeling of itself. It feels nothing. It doesn't have its own internal life. Simply a program answers naturally to my bits of feedbacks. Presently I realize that I dislike Cleverbot. I realize that I feel things and that I have a feeling of myself. I have expectations. Yet, how do I have any idea that you do? Besides, how do I have at least some idea that every other person that I meet is like me? How do I have at least some idea that they're not simply minimal shrewd adaptations of Cleverbot who know precisely very thing to say consequently? Presently the thing I'm asking is amazingly philosophical, be that as it may, it is an extremely renowned and significant inquiry. I'm fundamentally inquiring as to whether it's feasible for something special to exist as a philosophical zombie. Believe it or not, a thing that responds and answers and acts very much like a typical human in any case, yet doesn't really feel anything. It doesn't realize that it's having its own contemplations. It just consequently answers like a robot in the fitting manner. Presently why is this question astounding and weighty is that science doesn't have a response, what's more, it's not even certain that science will at any point have a response, not to mention a way to deal with tracking down that response. Pretty much the sum total of what we have is the brain science of problems of cognizance.How about we start with anosognosia. A typical illustration of anosognosia in brain science classes is a patient who has, say, lost the capacity to move their left hand. When requested to lift their right hand, they'll say, "No doubt, no issue, here you go." However at that point when requested to lift their left hand, they'll say, "Gracious, definitely, certain, no issue," however,not move it. Also, when inquired as to why they didn't move their left hand, than revealing that they can't, they'll confabulate some reason. For example, "Goodness, I didn't feel like it." Anton-Babinski Disorder is considerably more sensational. Patients with this disorder are cortically visually impaired. They can't see anything. However, they deny being visually impaired. In the event that you pose them an inquiry, for example, "What number of fingers am I holding up?" they will make a conjecture, yet in the event that they're off-base, they'll make sense of their incorrectness with a reason. For example, "gracious, all things considered, I don't have my glasses." Individuals who display anosognosia will generally be the casualties of stroke, also, there's some distinction between the thing they're truly encountering their cognizant consciousness of it. They don't realize that they can't see since the piece of their cerebrum that screens visual information isn't telling the cerebrum anything. It's not in any event, let the cerebrum know that there is no visual info and that implies that the pieces of their mind liable for addressing questions or making discourse needs to make a confabulated reaction totally. Regardless of the way that we've had the option to study patients with anosognosia, we actually have no clue instructions to take care of our unique issue. All we've figured out how to think of, as a matter of fact are more inconceivable inquiries concerning character, everything you can manage with them is to answer them yourself as indicated by what you accept. Here is another. It's known as the Swampman. Envision that I'm strolling around in a marsh and afterward out of nowhere, I get struck by a bolt if easing up furthermore, my whole body is charred, broke up into bits. Yet, exactly the same second, a second electrical jolt strikes close by, furthermore, it causes a lot of iotas and particles to all orchestrate themselves into precisely the same design that my body used to have, making a subsequent Michael. Is that me? Could that be me? Here is a stunningly better one. Envision that a specialist came in, furthermore, he began eliminating cells from me and from you, supplanting them precisely each in turn, supplanting my cells into your body and your cells into my body. When might I authoritatively have become you? Nobody on Earth has the conclusive solutions to these inquiries, be that as it may, you understand what we do have? A recline. Truth be told. I've made a playlist of a portion of my number one clasps from everywhere YouTube of brain science tests and deceptions and a wide range of tomfoolery stuff that arrangement with cognizance.

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    Written by Saqib Rahman