Post #1802281
2026-04-28 09:00 UTC
@chaucerburnt @sinbad
You’d think that but research on split brain patients (both hemispheres have been surgically severed) by Gazzaniga strongly suggests that ALL human explanations work that way. Look up “split brain rationalization”.
Christof Koch is a leading researcher into the neural basis of consciousness and the deeper you get into his research (try Then I myself am the World), the more obvious the similarities to LLMs become.
For more fun look up “Libet experiment”.
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@ikuturso@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 09:10
@frankreiff I'm familiar with those and that's definitely a really interesting comparison to draw and does suggest human explanations aren't quite as solid as we'd like to think... I'm not sure I follow completely though. Can you explain why would you say that it suggests explanations for humans would always work the same way even when we aren't talking about a case where the information simply isn't available as is the case in these split brain experiments. @chaucerburnt @sinbad