Scivillage.com Casual Discussion Science Forum

Maybe you should read more of your own reference:

In general, the kinds of hemispheric differences that were uncovered in split-brain patients have been replicated (and then extended) using these techniques in people with intact brains. This sometimes surprises people, including my fellow cognitive neuroscientists. The idea that the two hemispheres perceive things differently, attach different significance to things, obtain different meanings from stimuli, and, sometimes, make different decisions about what to do seems like it should be an exotic side effect of the split-brain condition. When the hemispheres are connected, don't they just share all the information and operate in a unified fashion?

The answer is, no, they don't.
- https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/1...lationship

You're the one who whined about, "The distinction between consciousness and intelligence is part of this topic." And then you equally whine when I cited the OP covering just that. Make up your mind, dumbass.

You were obviously conflating intelligence and consciousness with your whole panpsychism bullshit about a rock. As soon as I called you one that, you whine about the distinction (you had just conflated), and when I appease your whining, you whine more. You're such a dishonest piece of shit. Or is that just your delusions?

Quote:Maybe you should read more of your own reference:

LOL You're such a pathetic liar. Here's the rest of that quote in full context:

"When the hemispheres are connected, don't they just share all the information and operate in a unified fashion?

The answer is, no, they don't.

They don't, in part, because they can't. Processing within each hemisphere relies on a rich, dense network of connections. The corpus callosum that connects the hemispheres is big for a fiber tract, but it is tiny compared to the network of connections within each hemisphere. Physically, then, it doesn't seem feasible for the hemispheres to fully share information or to operate in a fully unified fashion...

My own view is that studies of hemispheric differences will help to move the field away from thinking in terms of mapping functions onto localized brain areas. I believe that cognitive functions arise from dynamically configured neural networks. On this view, the role played by any given brain area is different depending on the state of the network of which it is currently a part, and how activity unfolds over time often matters more than where it is in the brain.

Why do the hemispheres differ? I think it is because even small differences in something like the strength with which areas are connected can lead to very different dynamic patterns of activation over time – and thus different functions. For language comprehension in particular, my work has shown that left hemisphere processing is more influenced by what are sometimes called "top-down" connections, which means that the left hemisphere is more likely to predict what word might be coming up next and to have its processing affected by that prediction. The right hemisphere, instead, shows more "feedforward" processing: it is less influenced by predictions (which can make its processing less efficient) but then more able to later remember details about the words it encountered. Because of what is likely a difference (possibly small) in the efficacy of particular connections within each hemisphere, the same brain areas in the two interact differently, and this leads to measurable and important asymmetries in how words are perceived, linked to meaning, remembered, and responded to."

So...the left brain/right brain theory is indeed a myth. All of it. Just as I originally said. And now you're trying to deny it by brazenly taking quotes out context, ignoring the unequivocal statements from the article that it isn't true, and then changing the subject to other petty things I supposedly said or didn't say or whatever. I think this is sufficient to show who the real phony is here. You've been exposed Mr, Pottymouth. Crawl back under your rock and next time stick to topics that you actually know something about.

See where they are speculating? "My own view...I believe..."
And your using this 2013 source (no advances on this front since then?) to rebut a 2024 medically reviewed webmd reference.

(Jun 2, 2025 01:37 AM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]See where they are speculating? "My own view...I believe..."
And your using this 2013 source (no advances on this front since then?) to rebut a 2024 medically reviewed webmd reference.

'
I totally accept the view of a brain expert who's done years of research on brain hemispheres. There's simply no reason not to. Unless you are just trying to push the debunked myth because you can't handle being wrong. Yeah...I think that's it. I can't imagine you having any personal stake in it being true. I thought you didn't believe in "brain determinism"..

"The left brain vs. right brain myth" - Elizabeth Waters
TED-Ed
21.5M subscribers
https://youtu.be/ZMSbDwpIyF4

Personally, I don't really care, since I've never believed that personality or thinking style are dictated by the brain's structures at all. And since I've touted neuroplasticity for years, I'm happy to accept that regions of the brain can have a variety of functions. You seemed to want to discuss within the bounds of the OP, and I tried to appease you. I see that's a useless gesture.

But this is all one of your distractions. You couldn't support your nonsense about panpsychism and intelligent rocks having anything to do with the subject of this thread. Now you're trying to make another irrelevant point about the distinction between intelligence and consciousness, which no one has disputed.

All seemingly to avoid the simple and obvious fact that AI cannot be conscious. You've dancing around, waving all kinds of irrelevant red herrings... only to end up exactly where you started... gullible and delusional.

Not going to listen to and enable your repetitious and vulgar tyrades about who I am as a person or what I did or didn't post about in this thread. It's all on record, and I have far more interesting and edifying things to attend to. Moving on..

Of course. As soon as I stop enabling all your red herrings and hold you to task about your own unsupported and ignorant claims, you run away like a little pussy.
Anyone reading this thread knows this is true, so I'm happy to leave it up to the reader.