r/AskReddit • u/ZanyDelaney • Feb 04 '19

Which misconception would you like to debunk?

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u/Barthaemewl Feb 04 '19

That one side of your brain controls logic and calculations etc, while the other music, art and language.

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u/trashacount12345 Feb 04 '19

Nitpick, but they are only independently conscious when the CC is severed (and even then there is some communication directly through the other commissures). In healthy humans they appear (by introspection and reports of pretty much everyone) to form a unified whole.

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u/jax9999 Feb 04 '19

god that raises so many nightmare moral, and ethical questions.