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https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/the-hogan-twins-share-a-brain-and-see-out-of-each-others-eyes
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/could-conjoined-twins-share-a-mind.html
https://thewalrus.ca/how-conjoined-twins-are-making-scientists-question-the-concept-of-self/
omngentryo
Wow. So this gives us the idea of what telepathy must feel like.
malurt
Awful :|
languex
"Will you stop touching me!"
TokeMcBong
All aboard, express to hell.
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FrenchTheLlama2
"I feel like going out. Well I feel like staying home. Well I control the legs so you're fucking coming"
MosquitoHawker
While I would love to have telepathy, doing it this way would definitely disrupt my day.
terajack2048
What if one sneezes does the other get whiplash? If one gets sick does the other as well? How does the brain know which one is hungry?
martinsc0
They also have 5 legs
MisterBulldops
how did they get into their shirts?
Hypothesist
open back
taurondir
This would mean that if one body "dies" in an accident, they would both die? I don't see how they could be "separated" to save one.
notyouraverageghost
Came for this question. It sounds morbid, but if one died… like…?
thebigjuice
EccentricNimoy
ChaosSound
That is going to lead to some very intersting situations when they grow up and start dating
Kitakita
these kids always belong to families where you expect conjoined twins to be part of
svga
we are all so lucky to be alive in the modern day; medicine can keep them alive and science can prevent them from being feared as "monsters"
SnossedAndLost
Wonder if they had a natural birth? That'd be reaaaal difficult
Timeandrelativedimensionsinspaghetti
Dome so sloppy you gotta wear a wetsuit
lxix
I love my sister but i 100% would not like to be joined to her for life. It sounds like torture to me.
gillsnacks
Ripping nangs like champs, get in amongst it!
Myrddin251
Dumb question. They had to be C-section babies, right?
CheesyComestibles
So if one picks a card out of the deck and thinks about it, the other one knows what card was drawn? Wild.
Redyls
i am concerned these two are not exhibiting proper social distancing standards...
Leggerrr
This might sound rude, but I'm just curious. How did they get their shirts on?
EnigmaWearingHeels
They open at the back.
Gormlaith
Or zip/button on the side.
Couchwarrior1337
Hey church, how many souls do they have?
StephenDaniels
Stephen King says one twin fetus can eat the other early in development. I wonder if that happened here but they ended up in a stalemate?
SlaynXenos
Chimera syndrome. Two identical fetuses develop, one absorbs the other. Can lead to a person having two sets of DNA.
BillyM00n
It's almost 100% chance that they started as one embryo that started to split and never got completely detached. They're identical twins.
anacctnamedphat
Just shows that you can do anything if you put your heads together.
Laylah77
Too soon lol
forResearchPurposesOnly
That’s using the ol’ noggins.
OmahaMH
We'd just stay home forever
goodforyouman
So Krista, what's on your mind today?
Still this nosy bitch, Doctor.
I heard that.
llcoolj
That poor, confused barber.
FNOldGuys
What it be, fam? I'll have what he's having...
Mgiggity
Yo fam…da fuk?
dabbycats
I’m sure the give him a big Tip after
commentsivehadafew
Their necks must get so sore
TheChandrian
I’d watch a video of them going to a chiropractor and seeing the reaction.
SuperSaiyanSasquatch
You thinking what I'm thinking?
truthsmiles
My brain tried to figure out how they might be able to switch sides once in a while but then realized my brain is an idiot.
pianostacatto
Your brain might not be a brain. You could be zombie-proof!
MapleMooseMeat
Do a barrel roll!
FourLegsGood
They can lie down and bend that way
TheFuckYounicorn
Your twin kept most of it.
Targe0
Shame they ate them in the womb. /s
gilliamv
Crashdlanding
I feel like their muscles and such would be used to it? Sorta like holding our heads up for people without issue? I guess?
KillerTofu615
Ever sat in a bad posture for hours at a time causing pain? It will cause long term damage to their cervical spine... depending on life span
Junktrunkjunkie
Thier muscles would develop to support it but that doesn't mean it's painless. Friend of mine was born with his elbow on wrong way up →
Junktrunkjunkie
→ That arm has some seriously strangly developed muscles that allow him to still use it. But it hurts all the time.
Targe0
How exactly was it the wrong way up? There's a couple options I can think of.
Junktrunkjunkie
It can look normal in certain positions. When he “straightens” his arm the upper arm sticks up ward about 30 degrees and is a bit twisted
ClumsyBagOfSaltWater
(serious question) If they share a brain how we decide they are two people? What makes a person?
BatsArentBugs
I like the question! For my philosophical take it would come down to self identification. So they see themselves as discreet agents?
FuckGlitter
They share parts of the same brain, they each have other parts of the brain individually, giving them different personalities/identities
AdrianDunne
Says they share the thalamus, but no indication about the rest. Wonder what else is interconnected.
Lordrednaught
It would interesting doing a study on memories, but the issue is they both experience the same situation and can feel each others emotions.
erroniousmaximus
Memory can be tested visually. Such as with flash cards and other such stimuli. The problem would arise if they mentally tell each other .
1998wasthepinnacleofexistance
They do not share a brain- their brains are interconnected. There are a few articles on them. Medical sources are better than this wiki.
doyouhaveanygrapes
Maybe they split into two zygotes after conception like identical twins do, then later fused together?
Codecomp
OnlyWantToSayOneThing
At most the brains are only connected on one hemisphere. There have been people who have had half their brain taken out and recovered 1/?
OnlyWantToSayOneThing
with changes to the personality*. For all intents and purposes I would say that distinction of "one-ness" is more important than brain 2/?
OnlyWantToSayOneThing
being whole/connected. Sharing brain tissue with limited connectivity is not the same as being a single entity, otherwise brain biopsy 3/?
OnlyWantToSayOneThing
would make "A new person" after pulling out some tumor cells. Or you would be a new person any time new neural pathways connected. 4/?
OnlyWantToSayOneThing
But then again, the person you are now might be completely different if you experience trauma. TLDR brain is not the only measure of man 5/5
CapitalNick
Well if they know what the other is thinking, I suppose that indicates they independently think.
JackedUpGinger
more a social thing than a medical thing, two faces two bodies etc. shows itself as 2 people. But I smell what you’re steppin’ in.
CakeShapedPie
Picken up what they're throwing down? Scoopin what theyre poopin?
1998wasthepinnacleofexistance
They don't share a brain. Their brains share a thalamic bridge. Wikipedia isn't always correct.
Gooooodmoooorrrningmuchwow
Poo? Is it poo? Did I do it again?
nosaucesbutapplesauces
Op’s third link kinda goes there
ClumsyBagOfSaltWater
Yep, I read that one. Interesting but still doesn't satisfy me philosophically.
JackedUpGinger
more a social thing than a medical thing, two faces two bodies etc. shows itself as 2 people. But I smell what you’re steppin’ in.
RickSlabjaw
If they can communicate without speaking then they can’t keep a secret from one another, and we all know the definition of a man is…
RickSlabjaw
“A” miserable pile of secrets. Therefore they can’t possibly be more than one person. It just follows.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
What happens to the other one, when one eventually dies?
Ulthirm
Well given they share a bridge with their brain, most likely the other will die soon after of some variety of shock. Nerves would go haywire
Ulthirm
and the heart's regulatory system is still connected loosely to the brain and might also panic.
IsHeSkiing
Not happy things
Eridianne
They also die, historically.
ClumsyBagOfSaltWater
It is hard to imagine a situation where they dont both die in a very short time frame of each other.
ferrybig
If one gets a heart attack, the other heart can still keep going. As tissue decomposition sets in, it quickly spreads to the working side.
TimeFoDat
Separate twins have separate lives so their individual decisions would have a greater impact on them dying at different times. These two...
TimeFoDat
Must almost literally do everything together, at the same time so there are fewer external factors that would vary their individual health.
erroniousmaximus
Not even that. They’re connected to the point that when one dies, their necrotizing tissues will infect the other and kill them too.
TimeFoDat
I get that; I'm saying even if you could avoid that, they basically live as 1 person & 1 isn't likely to naturally die significantly sooner.
TimeFoDat
Twin A would probably die of the same thing Twin 1 did before any infections have time to take hold.