orthonormal comments on Nature: Red, in Truth and Qualia - Less Wrong

35 Post author: orthonormal 29 May 2011 11:50PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 08 June 2011 07:50:12AM 5 points [-]

A related and horrible thought: has anyone thought to ask the right lobe of a split-brain patient whether it's in pain? Or, more horribly: has anyone tried to suppress the corpus callosum for a moment (there's a specialized helmet which targets electromagnetic waves to do this for various areas) and ask the right lobe of an ordinary person how they feel?