Self-consciousness and "split" brains : the minds' I /
Elizabeth Schechter explores the implications of the experience of people who have had the pathway between the two hemispheres of their brain severed, and argues that there are in fact two minds, subjects of experience and intentional agents inside each split-brain human being: right and left. But e...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Summary: | Elizabeth Schechter explores the implications of the experience of people who have had the pathway between the two hemispheres of their brain severed, and argues that there are in fact two minds, subjects of experience and intentional agents inside each split-brain human being: right and left. But each split-brain subject is still one of us. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-283) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0198809654 9780198809654 |