David J. Uings

Better Than One (eBook, ePUB)

How We Each Have Two Minds

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Starting with research by Nobel laureate Roger Sperry into split-brain patients, this book sets out the evidence that there is a conscious mind in each hemisphere of the human brain. Two forms of consciousness are distinguished, and the difference in the consciousness of each mind revealed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429911361
• Artikelnr.: 56833789

Autorenporträt

David J Uings

Inhaltsangabe

The Background
The case outlined
The human brain
What is mind?
Consciousness
Language
The two visual pathways
Memory
The Evidence
Split-brain evidence for two minds
Differences in visual processing
Some questions answered
Some experimental evidence
Divided memories/divided attention
Consciousness and sleep
Mind and emotion
Self-deception
Reflections
Why is split-brain data ignored?
Why minds and not systems?
What makes a person?
A confusion of dichotomies
Why is consciousness confusing?
Consciousness
awareness
and attention
Where now?