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Self-Consciousness and "Split" Brains - The Minds' I (Hardcover): Elizabeth Schechter Self-Consciousness and "Split" Brains - The Minds' I (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Schechter
R2,630 Discovery Miles 26 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Could a single human being ever have multiple conscious minds? Some human beings do. The corpus callosum is a large pathway connecting the two hemispheres of the brain. In the second half of the twentieth century a number of people had this pathway cut through as a treatment for epilepsy. They became colloquially known as split-brain subjects. After the two hemispheres of the brain are cortically separated in this way, they begin to operate unusually independently of each other in the realm of thought, action, and conscious experience, almost as if each hemisphere now had a mind of its own. Philosophical discussion of the split-brain cases has overwhelmingly focused on questions of psychological identity in split-brain subjects, questions like: how many subjects of experience is a split-brain subject? How many intentional agents? How many persons? On the one hand, under experimental conditions, split-brain subjects often act in ways difficult to understand except in terms of each of them having two distinct streams or centers of consciousness. Split-brain subjects thus evoke the duality intuition: that a single split-brain human being is somehow composed of two thinking, experiencing, and acting things. On the other hand, a split-brain subject nonetheless seems like one of us, at the end of the day, rather than like two people sharing one body. In other words, split-brain subjects also evoke the unity intuition: that a split-brain subject is one person. Elizabeth Schechter argues that there are in fact two minds, subjects of experience, and intentional agents inside each split-brain human being: right and left. On the other hand, each split-brain subject is nonetheless one of us. The key to reconciling these two claims is to understand the ways in which each of us is transformed by self-consciousness.

Visions in Smoke (Paperback): Elizabeth Schechter Visions in Smoke (Paperback)
Elizabeth Schechter
R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Princes of Air (Paperback): Elizabeth Schechter Princes of Air (Paperback)
Elizabeth Schechter
R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Children of Dreams (Paperback): Elizabeth Schechter Children of Dreams (Paperback)
Elizabeth Schechter
R900 Discovery Miles 9 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Playing for Keeps (Paperback): Elizabeth Schechter Playing for Keeps (Paperback)
Elizabeth Schechter
R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Opening Gambit (Paperback): Elizabeth Schechter Opening Gambit (Paperback)
Elizabeth Schechter
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Wings of Air (Paperback): Elizabeth Schechter Wings of Air (Paperback)
Elizabeth Schechter
R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Chains of Light (Paperback): Elizabeth Schechter Chains of Light (Paperback)
Elizabeth Schechter
R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Bones of Earth (Paperback): Elizabeth Schechter Bones of Earth (Paperback)
Elizabeth Schechter
R692 Discovery Miles 6 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Written in Water (Paperback): Elizabeth Schechter Written in Water (Paperback)
Elizabeth Schechter
R652 Discovery Miles 6 520 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Forged in Fire (Paperback): Elizabeth Schechter Forged in Fire (Paperback)
Elizabeth Schechter
R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Heart's Master (Paperback): Elizabeth Schechter Heart's Master (Paperback)
Elizabeth Schechter
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Like A Circlet Editor - Erotic Fantasies of Our Office (Paperback): Bethany Zaiatz Like A Circlet Editor - Erotic Fantasies of Our Office (Paperback)
Bethany Zaiatz; Contributions by Kit Harding, Elizabeth Schechter
R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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