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[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

If you separate the halves of your brain, they can operate relatively fine independently of each other, each controlling roughly half of the body. When one half does something, and the other half is asked why they did it, the other half will make up a plausible reason why they just did that action. There's a theory that this is basically how your brain works all the time, just guessing why it did things, and potentially with multiple processes happening in relative isolation that aren't consciously aware of each other.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

There was also a House MD episode with a patient with that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago

That explains my life.