Salvete! Fellow Earthicans, welcome to the third episode of the Sip of the Iceberg podcast. I'm here with a philosophical discussion about consciousness.

Are 'you' your brain? Does your brain control 'you' or 'you' control your brain? Or is it one and the same thing?

Read my blog on the same topic: https://cosmicinhibitions-proximaeupheus.blogspot.com/2023/08/am-i-my-brain.html

Bibliography:

• ​Future of the Mind Book by Michio Kaku: https://mkaku.org/home/publications/about-the-future-of-the-mind/
• ​Descartes’ Epistemology: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/
• ​Consciousness explained: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8824704/
• ​Dissociative Identity Disorder: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK568768/
• ​Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11910194/
• ​Alien Hand Syndrome: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4059570/
• ​Split-brain Syndrome: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7305066/
• ​The Chicken and the Shovel experiment: https://physics.weber.edu/carroll/honors/split_brain.htm
• ​Anton-Babinski Syndrome: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538155/
• ​Wernicke Aphasia: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441951/
• ​Brain anatomy: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/anatomy-of-the-brain
• ​Red Dead Redemption 2 game: https://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadredemption2
• ​Hard Problem of Consciousness: https://iep.utm.edu/hard-problem-of-conciousness/
• ​Inverted Spectrum: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-inverted/
• ​The Egg - Short story by Andy Weir: https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html