Consciousness after split-brain surgery: The recent challenge to the classical picture.
Neuropsychologia September 17, 2021 Elizabeth Schechter, Tim Bayne 11 citations
A critical evaluation of recent split-brain experiments argues that claims of unified consciousness in patient D.D.C. are premature. Two distinct conceptions of unity of consciousness are distinguished: agency-based and experience-based. Whether the behavioral data demonstrate unity of agency remains an open question, depending on both the mechanisms underlying split-brain behavior and what constitutes a single agent. Even if agency-based unity is established, the data are difficult to reconcile with full unity of consciousness in the experience-based sense.