Phenomenal Self and Divided Brain
Progress December 29, 2025 Przemysław Paleczny
Famous experiments on patients who underwent commissurotomy, such as those conducted by Roger Sperry, perplex philosophers. These patients, whom we consider single persons, seem to have two separate streams of consciousness due to a severed corpus callosum. Consequently, the patient appears to be a single biological organism inhabited by two distinct psychological beings. This paper aims to...