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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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CPTrilling
Behavior generated by the right brain is given poor, after-the-fact explanation (confabulation) by the left (verbal) cerebral cortex, so one can infer that the behavior is "sub-conscious." That doesn't mean there is a particular locus of consciousness.
TetrisGuy · 26-30, M
Nonono, I don't mean that type of consciousness. I'm talking about the philosophical construct of consciousness.