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B1 Intermediate English 7:16 Educational

What Is Consciousness?

Vsauce · 11,782,191 views · Added 1 month ago

Learning Stats

B1

CEFR Level

5/10

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Subtitles (139 segments)

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Hey Vsauce, Michael here, and a hemispherectomy

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is a surgical procedure in which half of a person's brain

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is removed.

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It's usually only ever done on very, very young patients

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because their brains are still plastic enough

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that the remaining half will take on the functions

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of the half that was removed.

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And it's usually done because a young child or a baby

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is having seizures, and removing the part where the seizures occur

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is the only solution.

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But here's my question.

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If you can live with half a brain,

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what if I were to take two empty skulls

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and take one half of your brain

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and plop it into one body and the other half

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and put it in another body,

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which person would be you?

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I mean, you are you. You are conscious.

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You are aware of what is happening to you

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from the perspective of yourself. Think of it this way.

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If you just stare at something and kind of feel

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what it feels like to be you,

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it feels a little bit like you're a thing

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inside a body looking out through the eyeballs.

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And nobody else on Earth

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will ever see the world from that position.

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This awareness of your own experiences,

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the awareness that you are having them,

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