In the 1939 neuroscientists began cutting living human brains in two in order to treat certain types of epileptic seizures. Subsequent experiments on those patients gave science an unnerving window into the nature of human consciousness.  It turns out that there might be more versions inside of your own brain than you might be comfortable with.

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Split brain behavioral experiments (Video of Joe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMLzP1VCANo

Summary of Robert Sperry's Nobel Prize Winning Split Brain Experiments
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/roger-sperrys-split-brain-experiments-1959-1968

One Brain. Two Minds? Many Questions
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6057762/#b7-june-16-r48

Split Brain: Divided perception but undivided consciousness https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28122878/

Interaction in isolation: 50 years of insights from split-brain research
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29177496/

The other side of the brain: The politics of split brain research in the 1970s-1980s
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-25463-001

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