The unity puzzle -- Subjects of experience and subjective perspectives -- Dual intentional agency -- How many minds? -- Objection from sub-cortical structures -- Bodies and being one -- Self and other int he split-brain subject -- The self-consciousness condition of personhood -- Duality myths
Summary
Elizabeth Schechter explores the implications of the experience of people who have had the pathway between the two hemispheres of their brain severed, and argues that there are in fact two minds, subjects of experience, and intentional agents inside each split-brain human being: right and left. But each split-brain subject is still one of us