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Can split brain patients play instruments?

Maybe?If any music-related studies have been conducted on such a specific (and dwindling) population of people, they are not very easy to find. So we don’t have any definitive answers.Split-brain patients are able to behave in almost-normal fashion in many situations. Experimentalists had to contrive very artificial situations in order to find deficits that arose from a lack of hemispheric communication. (Subcortical communication between hemispheres does still exist when the corpus callosum is severed, however.)One reason for this is hiding in plain sight: even if the hemispheres cannot communicate with each other, they can be coordinated as result of the partially-overlapping signals they receive from the world. In other words, even if intra-brain communication is unavailable, the external world can still be used to communicate information between the hemispheres.A split-brain patient can receive sounds in both ears and can see both limbs. They can therefore receive sensory feedback regarding their actions. This suggests that even if a split-brain musician initially struggles to play their instrument well, they might be able to practice (perhaps with a mirror?) and develop near-normal performance.The fact that split-brain patients can do all kinds of coordinated two-hand tasks supports at least some of this intuition:The split brain: A tale of two halves“Split-brain patients have little difficulty with 'bimanual' tasks, and Vicki and at least one other patient are able to drive a car. In 2000, a team led by Liz Franz at the University of Otago in New Zealand asked split-brain patients to carry out both familiar and new bimanual tasks. A patient who was an experienced fisherman, they found, could pantomime tying a fishing line, but not the unfamiliar task of threading a needle. Franz concluded that well-practised bimanual skills are coordinated at the subcortical level, so split-brain people are able to smoothly choreograph both hands”

If two or more living human brains with no stimulus were placed into the same container, touching each other, would they eventually figure out a way to communicate with each other?

Not in any meaningful way.The brain isn’t some stand-alone piece of machinery that can be hooked up to whatever peripheral body you choose. It’s one piece of a unique and integrated system. Each brain, for instance, has a body map attuned to the particular body it’s a part of, and it cannot function properly without being in that specific body.Theoretically (but probably not in practice) if you could keep a brain alive and hook it up to a feedback loop which somehow perfectly mimicked the feedback loop which it expects from its mapped body, then the brain would go on as usual, moving imaginary limbs and regulating imaginary bodily functions. But if you remove the feedback loop (stimulus) from that hypothetical, then no.So if you did somehow manage to extract two brains and merely keep the tissues alive, whatever neurological activity they produced would be incoherent. There would be no consciousness involved, no thought.If you put two of these brains together so that they touched, you might well get some entrainment. This is the process by which, for example, two grandfather clocks placed next to each other will come to tick simultaneously in time as their pendulums synchronize through vibrations carried by the floor. But this would be a purely mechanical process of “communication” and would have nothing to do with what we think of as communication between two sentient beings.

Do our brains divide the information into time dependent BITS?

In theory, every bit of long term memory has a sequence code, or something that serves the same purpose.Being able to remember the exact sequence of events, cause and effect, is vital to survival. If you are not consciously aware of something, then it cannot have a sequence code, and cannot be stored long term. That includes every thought, decision, and everything ever imagined.There are varying degrees of awareness, such as being vaguely aware of background sounds.This is the vital role of conscious; turning data into long term memory (along with helping to direct our body and senses).According to the best science, the subconscious generates all thoughts, decisions….etc. It’s a data processing machine, and has no awareness. If it did, then it would be able to override millions of years, of evolution. Such a species would never survive.

How can we, as Christians who believe we are a soul with a body, explain the phenomenon of split-brain cases where a person experiences two different streams of consciousness? How can a non-physical mind interact with a physical body?

How can we, as Christians who believe we are a soul with a body, explain the phenomenon of split-brain cases where a person experiences two different streams of consciousness? How can a non-physical mind interact with a physical body?Your paradigm has a few missing bits, else you would understand exactly how this happens, and how possession can occur.Firstly you need to accept, or go and research until you do accept, that the mind is NOT in the brain. That is the bit missing in your paradigm, but because that is the case, we can have NDE, OBE and spirit possession.Next I need to explain that the soul and the mind are not the same at all. The mind was created only for the purpose of interacting with the physical realm, both here and after death - even though that is quite different material. It is actually a semi-material - the material of the spirit world. That is why science can’t see it, and never will see it. Now the mind is intimately connected with the brain, which is an awesome device anyway. The connection appears to be perhaps the silver chord that distinguishes a living human from a spirit. And under NDE’s and OBE’s that silver chord just stretches almost infinitely but will snap the mind and soul back if the body needs attention.So what does spirit - dead guys - consist of? They don't have a physical body, but they have that mind that they had while here on Earth, and they have the soul, which fact created that mind. So it follows that a spirit knows exactly how to interact with a brain. They probably are also able to interact with human’s minds, that would not surprise me, because thoughts are thoughts, no matter who creates them, and thoughts go to the mind, and if that individual is a living human, then to the brain. I concede I am a bit uncertain of how a mind interacts with a brain, but it sure does. It may not be the silver chord, that may be the souls connection. We are familiar with non physical connections all around us. Wifi is a simple example.So I hope you can see how it all works now?If you ever mange to reach the heaven that Jesus said you need to be reborn of spirit in order to enter, you will have given up your semi-material mind, and your soul will be all you will carry into the Kingdom of God.