Self-Consciousness After Split-Brain Surgery

September 25, 2020 -
3:30pm to 5:30pm

Abstract: In this talk, Prof. Schechter will first argue that the two hemispheres of a split-brain subject are associated with distinct conscious thinkers and, indeed, distinct thinkers of self-conscious thoughts, R and L. She will then argue that the dynamics of self-conscious thought after split-brain surgery shows that R and L are unlike other pairs of self-conscious thinkers. Indeed, there is a basic psychological capacity much simpler than but ordinarily inherent in full-blown psychological self-consciousness that R and L both lack.

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Sponsored by the Center for Philosophy of Science

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