Scientists Discover What Happens When You Remove a Brain From Its Body…

If you disconnect half a brain from the rest of the body, does it stay conscious?

This isn’t hypothetical anymore.

Children with severe epilepsy sometimes undergo a surgery where half their brain is completely severed from the other half and from the outside world. The seizures stop and remarkably, the kids recover.

But scientists wanted to know: what happens to that disconnected half? All seven core brain networks were still active. The default mode network, the one firing when you daydream