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I remember reading an article that suggested consciousness could be tied to the corpus callosum in the brain. But...

what of those people that get those surgeries to sever their corpus callosum as seizure prevention? If consciousness indeed exists, and is related to the corpus callosum, we would never be able to tell if the individual is no longer conscious, and is just "seemingly" conscious, that is sentient but not conscious. IDK if I'm saying it properly or not. But I just had this weird thought right now, since I recently learned about this weird procedure in psych, and I just remembered this consciousness thing right now.You are a brain. I am a brain. When you talk about the brain, the brain is talking about itself. The brain named itself. Braaaaaaains...

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Xuan

Most sources I know indicate that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon, likely not directly linked to any one part of the brain.

TetrisGuy · 26-30, M

I think I know how to find out where consciousness lies. Stick a person in an fMRI. Run some scans on them to find brain activity. Then inject whatever they injected into me before I got my wisdom teeth removed (two years ago) but before they injected the knockout drug. Cuz this effectively made me unconscious but otherwise seemingly conscious. Run fMRI tests on these people after the injection. Evaluate the differences. That part could be where consciousness lies. Could be.

Xuan

Hehe, if it were only that easy. We call a person unconscious, but their brain activity remains quite lively. No such isolation technique has been effective. Good thinking though.

TetrisGuy · 26-30, M

What I mean is that there will be a portion of the brain that exhibits far less activity than the others with this drug. Should it be able to be isolated, this could be a method to see it.

Xuan

Well if you're talking about consciousness as in, awake or not, there are known differences in brain patterns. If you're talking about consciousness, as in the continuous account of experience, then the answer is not so simple, since even people in dream states have consciousness in the latter sense.

TetrisGuy · 26-30, M

I talk about consciousness in terms of the difference between a human and an inanimate object (though I will admit that I am somewhat animist and do not truly consider "inanimate" objects to be completely devoid of consciousness)

Xuan

Well, there are quite a few of those, including both versions of consciousness I mentioned. Maybe better to continue this line of thought after some rest.