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Luke's Note
Human brains are divided into two functionally-distinct hemispheres. An identical seizure on the right and left side results in totally different outcomes. Interestingly, humans can and have lived fully conscious, normal lives with only one hemisphere (are better off with right side).
Speaker 1: of this is in so far as we can speculate about them and just just why would it be that brains would be divided and divided in the way that they are? But let's describe how we know that the hemispheres are so different in our own case, you know, based on the I just wanna summarize the split brain research. Who a little more detail for people who may not be familiar with it. And the interesting thing here is that the claims that you are going to make about the differences between right and left and you know, you have gone so far as to suggest that the right hemisphere is the mawr competent, the more fully human them or it is the master rather than the emissary. That is quite different
Luke's Note
Contrary to pop-psychology, the right brain appears more rational, more human, more competent while the left is more prone to bias, jumping to conclusions, poor judgements.