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If someone gets split brain surgery, does this law mean they stop being a mammal? Personally I think you should get your nipples removed if you want to stop be
by opwieurposiu 6y ago
If someone gets split brain surgery, does this law mean they stop being a mammal? Personally I think you should get your nipples removed if you want to stop being a mammal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
- darkerside 6y agoYou do stop having a typical mammalian brain. This seems no more subjective than Moore's Law, for one, or Conway's Law for another.
- draw_down 6y agoHumans typically have two arms, if one of yours gets chopped off you don't stop being human
- tgb 6y agoIt's a good question, but the article claims there's a compensation: "when connectivity between the hemispheres is high, connectivity within each hemisphere is relatively low, and vice versa". There's no reason that couldn't apply to someone with a split brain or a single hemisphere, at least after given time to adapt to the surgery.
- wwwwewwww 6y agoMarsupials and monotremes lack the corpus callosum that facilities communication between left and right brain in placental mammal, so it is as if they already had this surgery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum This seems to put into question their statement about "all mammals", but I haven't read the article, so maybe they actually mean placental mammals only. Monotreme mammals don't have nipples.