Personal identity: Conjoined twins

One human body and two human persons?

Understanding personal identity and what matters... Sandberg on the ethics of uploading.

Ramachandran: The mirron neurons link the sciences and the humanities

There is no real distinction between your consciousness and someone else’s consciousness: “There is no real independent self (…) You are quite literally connected by your neurons (…) This is not mambo-jumbo philosophy: it emerges from our understanding of basic neuroscience” (Ramachandran, 2009)

Two united as one: connected brains

UNITED BRAINS: PERSONAL IDENTITY AND THE BRAIN (video)

On Being No One: Neuroscience and the myth of the self (a lecture by philosopher and cognitive scientist Thomas Metzinger)

"The self is an illusion that is no one's illusion"

"The tragedy of the ego disolves because strictly speaking nobody is ever born and nobody ever dies"

Gazzaniga's experiments on split-brain