Split Brain Experiments

Join host Ava Grey as she unravels split brain experiments—studies revealing we may not be unified beings. Discover how severing brain hemispheres exposed hidden conflicts within consciousness and forced us to question what it means to be a single self. Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTV This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Host Ava Grey explores the six-decade debate over split-brain consciousness. When surgeons sever the brain's connecting cable, do patients have one mind or two? Grey examines three competing theories—Global Workspace, Integrated Information, and Local Recurrent Processing—each claiming the same evidence proves their case, revealing why consciousness remains science's most contentious mystery. Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTV This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Ava Grey examines groundbreaking research challenging neuroscience's most famous finding: that severing the brain's hemispheres splits consciousness in two. Amsterdam psychologist Yair Pinto's rigorous testing of split-brain patients revealed unified awareness despite complete disconnection, upending decades of accepted theory and forcing scientists to reconsider what consciousness actually is. Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTV This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Host Ava Grey explores split-brain experiments by Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga, revealing how severing the corpus callosum exposed the brain's confabulation abilities. The famous chicken claw experiment shows the speaking hemisphere invents explanations for actions it never initiated, maintaining an illusion of unified selfhood. Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTV This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.