What if your gut feeling is just as conscious as you are? A thought experiment on the unified self
moultano · x · 2026-09-21
The author poses a consciousness thought experiment: how do we actually know the brain has one unified self?
His conjecture: the "gut feeling" part might be just as conscious as you are, with its own detailed reasoning for its decisions — and that feeling is simply the only channel through which it can communicate. The body may host multiple conscious subjects rather than one unified self.
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