<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM Tara Maya via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>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. I<span style="background-color:transparent">n a sense our left and right hemispheres are two different people;</span></i></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">No. They are only </b></font><span style="background-color:transparent"><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">two different people if the corpus callosum bundle of nerve fibers connecting the two hemispheres has been surgically severed; if they have been then neither hemisphere knows what it's like to be the other hemisphere. A surgically split brain produces a split mind because mind is what a brain does. </b></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="background-color:transparent"><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""><br></b></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="background-color:transparent"><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">John K Clark </b></font></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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