We operate our body with a single processor, the brain. Our organs are also managed by the brain. The brain is highly optimized to operate each of our organs, control motor functions, and allow us to think.
1 brain cannot control 2 bodies, there’s simply too much going on. Likewise, 2 full brains cannot control the same body, they would fight for resources. Organs keep the brain alive, the brain keeps organs alive. It’s a 1:1 ratio, sometimes less than 1, but never double (some have been born with extra controllable appendages but it’s few and far between).
Therefore, only a higher, more generalized, processor could handle operating 2 or more distinct beings.
If only our cells could talk.
Abby and Brittany Hensel, would disagree.
thats flipping it though, its two brains driving one body.
Likewise, 2 full brains cannot control the same body, they would fight for resources. Organs keep the brain alive, the brain keeps organs alive.
With A and B, some organs it’s 1:1, some are shared… Point is, not every organ has to be 1:1.
Most conjoined twins don’t survive. Some do and live atypical lives. My argument is that, 1 brain cannot control 2 bodies, and 2 brains cannot control 1 body. In A&B’s case, their core organs are approaching 1:1, and each controls a couple extremities on their respective side.
I don’t know how to tell you why you’re a bit wrong and i hope someone else will.
I will try though.
The brain is like a network that involves the central nervous system. It isn’t just one big thing at the top of your head, but a series of small things connected together from the top of your head down to the end of your spine. And the constraints on their abilities depend heavily on their environment.
Higher processing power consumes more energy and requires better cooling. And the human body can only provide a limited amount of both.
It’s a matter of matter itself. Our bones, blood vessels, muscles, everything are what they are due to the planet we live on. We can’t do better (for now) due to chemistry.
So it’s really not that the brain can’t, but that the basic laws of our local universe don’t allow it to. By itself however, I’d say it almost definitely can or it will at least grow to try.
You are correct. The brain is woven into our core, but that also strengthens the idea that a person will always be a person.
Your comments strengthen my conviction that you read a philosophy book and now try to emulate what you think smart people sound like.
Our brains are quite adaptive though, maybe at first it would be like a pigeon playing QWOP, but after some time I think we’d figure it out.
I’d be interested in a study on this.
