Sperry and the Age of Aquarius: science, values and the split brain.
Neuropsychologia October 1, 1998 M C Corballis
Sperry's empirical work on split-brain patients reinforced a materialist view of mind-brain relations, but his concept of emergent consciousness that can causally influence neural function echoes Cartesian dualism, potentially allowing for free will, individual responsibility, and a synthesis of science with moral and religious values. Sperry insisted his view was entirely materialistic, distinguishing not between non-material mind and material brain but between holism and reductionism. He associated this distinction with right- versus left-brain modes of thought and hoped for unification of holistic and reductionist approaches, believing these modes are fundamentally unified in the normal brain.