It's no secret that our brain consists of the right and left hemispheres. Each of them has its own functions, confirms estet-portal.com. They are always in touch with each other and communicate with each other. Each of them is responsible for its own half of the body, and transmits these signals to the other hemisphere, as a result of which we can perform various functions, for example, one hemisphere sees an object, the other is responsible for taking it. If we break this connection, we become helpless and cannot control various processes.
What happens if the hemispheres of the brain are separated?
Our hemispheres control each other. They are interconnected by nerve fibers. If they are separated, the hemispheres will no longer see each other.
In the past, the treatment of epilepsy used the method of dividing the hemispheres, while patients often complained that their right and left halves of the body did not work in harmony.
For example, if a person with disconnected hemispheres is shown an object, then the right hemisphere will see it (it is responsible for vision). However, the left one will not be able to say what it has seen (it is responsible for our speech), since the signal about the seen picture has not been suppressed from the right half of the brain. And in response you will not hear anything.
So you can hide an object with your left hand and the right hemisphere will not see anything.
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Experiments with split brain hemispheres
If, for example, people with separated hemispheres are shown an object and asked to draw it. They will draw 2 drawings at the same time, with 2 different hands, which is absolutely impossible when the hemispheres of the brain are interconnected.
In the same way, you can ask such a person the same question, but you will hear completely different answers from him. Therefore, we can assume that a second consciousness appears in your head, which lives its own life.
Moreover, such a phenomenon is observed that after the separation of the hemisphere, they do not go crazy, from the presence of "someone else", but begin to play along with each other.
One of the answers to this question is that the separated hemispheres do not develop into a separate thinking intelligence, but simply they develop as a kind of companion.
Hemispheres as equal partners
Scientists have determined that the left hemisphere is sharpened to explain our actions. This happens with normal healthy people who have both hemispheres of the brain working. But with the separation of these halves, the picture changes.
For example, if someone upsets you, then with the division of functions, the left hemisphere begins to experience emotions, and the right hemisphere reacts to them anyway, rolling its eyes.
So it can be assumed that the right hemisphere does not go crazy when they are separated, because nothing has changed for him. You are now beginning to think how it could be. And at the same time, you clearly demonstrate the work of the left hemisphere, which is just responsible for explaining and analyzing the situation.
What is our mind?
No matter how much scientists struggled with the question, they were still able to give a clear answer: what is our mind. Of course, there are neuromedial connections along which our thoughts.
If we discard all assumptions and hypotheses, then people with separated hemispheres show that the mind is something inexplicable and living separately, which is activated under certain conditions and has the ability:
- see,
- hear.
- feel.
- understand
- answer, etc.
Besides, the question arises: is your brain yourself? Or a system of cells that live their own lives, and in the proposed circumstances act as one? Why do they combine to perform this or that action?
Science has yet to answer these questions. What do you think, let's bet on estet-portal.com.
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