Better Than One - How We Each Have Two Minds

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.

List of contents

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?

About the author

David J Uings

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: David J. Uings, David J. Uings, David J. Uings, Uings David J.
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2014
• EAN: 9781782201731
• ISBN: 978-1-78220-173-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Culture and Psychoanalysis, Physiological psychology, neuropsychology, biopsychology