I recently read Michael Gazzaniga's book, 'Who's in Charge: Free Will and the Science of the Brain'.  Gazzaniga, working with Roger Sperry, performed some of the famous split-brain patient experiments.  The results of these experiments had implications for our understandings of consciousness, the self, and free will. In patients with certain types of severe epileptic … Continue reading Consciousness: the interpreter, the lexicographer, the reporter →