A layered unity model of split-brain consciousness.
Split-brain subjects can consciously perceive and identify two stimuli presented simultaneously but separately in opposite hemifields. Yet, they seem to lack a conscious experience of the two stimuli together, as they cannot judge whether these are the same or different. Such breakdowns in experient...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 182; no. 8; pp. 2159 - 2191 |
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