What would someone experience if cut in half?

[Naxos]

@AaronX

If someone were cut in half from top to bottom, what would they experience? Would their consciousness stick to one half, or split into 2? How would one go about finding this out?

Where did you get this idea from?

[AaronX]

@Naxos

Where did you get this idea from?

I was wondering which part of the brain consciousness resides in. Does it remain in one location, or does it flit from cerebellum to cerebrum?

[Naxos]

@AaronX

I was wondering which part of the brain consciousness resides in. Does it remain in one location, or does it flit from cerebellum to cerebrum?

I brought up a hypothetical of slicing up a human in half in another thread… I thought you may have been using it as an excuse…

Your initial question is moronic. Any action that would result in the destruction of the human brain or body in such severe manner, would result in immediate death for the human in question.

[njtt]

@AndrewL

This might be of some interest to you:

Split-brain - Wikipedia

Split-brain patients have had their corpus callosum cut, and perhaps some or all of the other commissures (nerve bundles) that connect the two cerebral hemispheres. However, the lower parts of their brains, the midbrain, the cerebellum, and the brainstem, remain intact. Although I do not think the experiment has ever been tried, I am confident that if those were cut through, death would follow very rapidly. (The cerebellum might not matter so much - it is possible to live without one - but the midbrain and brainstem certainly do matter.)

[AaronX]

@Naxos

Any action that would result in the destruction of the human brain or body in such severe manner, would result in immediate death for the human in question.

Does it? Decapitation doesn’t, neither does removing parts of the brain. If “immediate” death were so easy, there wouldn’t be debate on humane methods of killing, would there?