[ExI] Subjective/Objective

[John Clark]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM Tara Maya via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> In order to experience another person's subjectivity i think we would
> have to create a subcellular synaptic bridge that literally allowes their
> synapses and ours to communicate, as our left and right hemispheres do.*
>

*If your brain and mine were united as tightly as the hemispheres of our
brains are then the resulting creature would be neither you nor me;
and Tara Maya and John Clark still wouldn't know what it would be like to
be the other. *


> * > In a sense our left and right hemispheres are two different people;*
>

*That is true only if the bundle of nerve fibers connecting the two
hemispheres, the corpus callosum, has been surgically severed.** And I
don't find it surprising that a split brain causes a split mind because
mind is what a brain does.*

*John K Clark*





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