Scientist working at Tufts University; my lab studies patterning and computation in a range of biological systems.
It's kind of been done (see some of the links of split brain patient studies that some people replied with) and this amazing work in amphibians and fish:
Wow I appear to have gotten this masterpiece for $1.50!
Yep; I love these books - so many deep ideas, so much effort by various people to better understand the world and help others to see new things through various lenses.
Good book on whole-body regeneration:
there's this: [link] but it's not my area, I am not sure what it would mean for the universe to be holographic. Re. conscioussness, I doubt it, but re. memory, this amazing book has some ideas on holographic models of memory:
