Consciousness Splitting Options

[thosylve]

Hi all,

A few days ago I thought about consciousness and came up with a problem that I could not answer myself. Maybe this is a well known problem, if it is or you have some good answers please do reply

Ok my thought experiment is the following:

Imagine that i split my brain with my twin brother and with some future technology are able to merge the my right side brain with my twin brothers left side and my left side brain with my twin brothers right side. What will I expricence when i wake up after the operation? Which person will i wake up as?

The point of the thought experiement that when consciousness is a product of brain activity we should be able (with some fancy future technology) to split the brain into many pieces from many different individuals and merge the pieces into the same number of brains. When we wake up the people where will their consciousness have gone?

Many thanks in advance for your answers.

Kind Regards,

Thomas

[fredreload]

I thought of a similar problem. I think consciousness is comprised of all the neural activities that's going on in the brain. So if all the neural activities stop, then you lose consciousness. It is similar to a computer, if the internal battery on the CPU is missing, then you lose all the memory. So to answer your question, if the neural activities in the conscious region of your brain stops. Then the consciousness is gone. As for the memory, you and your twin brother should have a different set of memory. So switching the brain would simply be the memory you lose or gain during this process.