A mind split in two – or Strange Case of Dr Left and Mr Right
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One of the things I ask myself when deciding what to write about for this newsletter is “What are the things I know that I wish more people knew?” That’s how I decided to write about Bayes’ theorem for my last essay, and about the split-brain for this one. The split-brain is a weird consequence of a specific type of neurosurgery that deeply shakes our understanding of the mind, but for whatever reason, it’s much less known by the general public than other bizarre scientific discoveries like, say, quantum mechanical phenomena, despite being, in my opinion, equally as puzzling and mind-boggling.
A mind split in two – or Strange Case of Dr Left and Mr Right
A mind split in two – or Strange Case of Dr…
A mind split in two – or Strange Case of Dr Left and Mr Right
One of the things I ask myself when deciding what to write about for this newsletter is “What are the things I know that I wish more people knew?” That’s how I decided to write about Bayes’ theorem for my last essay, and about the split-brain for this one. The split-brain is a weird consequence of a specific type of neurosurgery that deeply shakes our understanding of the mind, but for whatever reason, it’s much less known by the general public than other bizarre scientific discoveries like, say, quantum mechanical phenomena, despite being, in my opinion, equally as puzzling and mind-boggling.