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>From: orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
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Subject: Two minds in one head
Keywords: split-brain
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Those who hang their rejection of the Systems Reply to Searle's 
CR argument on the dubiousness of the "very dubious assumption that 
there are, somehow, two minds running around inside the man's head"
(as Christopher Green once put it), may be interested in Roger Penrose's
discussion of a particular split-brain subject of Donald Wilson's:

	[O]nly the left hemisphere could speak but *both* hemispheres
	could comprehend speech; later the right hemisphere learned
	to speak also!  Evidently *both* hemispheres were conscious.
	Moreover, they appeared to be separately conscious, because
	they had different likes and desires.  For example, the
	left hemisphere described that its wish was to be a draughtsman,
	and the right, a racing driver!
				["The Emporer's New Mind," p. 385]


