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Debate: Do Split Brain Patients Have Two Minds?
5:00 pm
Debate: Do Split Brain Patients Have Two Minds?
@ Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center
Sep 18 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
In split-brain patients, the cerebral hemispheres have been separated by severing the corpus collosum. These patients sometimes behave as if they have one mind and sometimes as if they have two. Do these patients have a single consciousness that is in some respects fragmented? Or does each hemisphere support a distinct experiencing subject with a separate mind? Joseph LeDoux (Center for Neural Science, NYU) Yaïr Pinto (Psychology, University of Amsterdam) Elizabeth Schechter (Philosophy, Washington University[...]
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