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They have their brains fused together and can still walk and talk? The flexibility of the growing brain never ceases to amaze me. It shows how robust the whole
by lolc 9y ago
They have their brains fused together and can still walk and talk? The flexibility of the growing brain never ceases to amaze me. It shows how robust the whole process of growing from a single cell really is. A human can grow in uncountable ways.
Given how the twins share sensory inputs, I wonder how memory and imagination works for them. As they "hear" each other thinking, do they also share common memories? If one remembers a scene, will the other remember it the same way? Or will it have to be narrated between them?
When one reads a book, will the other get the story? I would guess so. But will they share the imagined parts, or will they imagine the scenes individually?
- radicalbyte 9y agoIt's extremely rare though; the article mentions that the vast majority of such twins die within the first 24hrs.
- erasmuse 9y ago>do they also share common memories? Indeed! The way I see it, identity derives from memory. So to the extent (if any) that they share identical memories they are strictly the same person. Beyond that I would guess there may be some (false) identification with behaviours of the other twin, in a manner redolent of Gazzaniga and Sperry's famous split brain experiment: https://physics.weber.edu/carroll/honors/split_brain.htm https://physics.weber.edu/carroll/honors/split_brain.htm