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Duality Myths
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This chapter addresses the intuitive fascination of the split-brain phenomenon. According to what I call the standard explanation, it is because we ordinarily assume that people are psychologically unified, while split-brain subjects are not psychologically unified, which suggests that we might not be unified either. I offer a different interpretation. One natural way of grappling with people’s failures to conform to various assumptions we make about them is to conceptualize them as having multiple minds. Such multiple-minds models take their most dramatic form in narrative art as duality myths. The split-brain cases grip people in part because the subjects strike them as living embodiments of such myths.
Title: Duality Myths
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This chapter addresses the intuitive fascination of the split-brain phenomenon.
According to what I call the standard explanation, it is because we ordinarily assume that people are psychologically unified, while split-brain subjects are not psychologically unified, which suggests that we might not be unified either.
I offer a different interpretation.
One natural way of grappling with people’s failures to conform to various assumptions we make about them is to conceptualize them as having multiple minds.
Such multiple-minds models take their most dramatic form in narrative art as duality myths.
The split-brain cases grip people in part because the subjects strike them as living embodiments of such myths.
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