Conversations on Consciousness

Of course the most famous example of
that is the split brain studied by Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga,
where there really is no direct communication between the two hemispheres.
I would argue that the evidence is all in favour of there being
two consciousnesses in those patients: both hemispheres can, for example,
answer questions; both of them can report perceptual experiences
that are uniquely routed to those particular hemispheres; both
have control over the hands and the fingers on the opposite side of
the body. And so it would seem that both of them meet the criteria
that we normally use for consciousness. - Bernard Baars

και η συνέχεια από την Sue!!

It’s fascinating to think about this split brain question; people have
given so many different answers to the question of whether there are
two consciousnesses, one consciousness, many, none, whatever. But if
you’re going to take the view, as you do, that there are two consciousnesses
in a split-brain patient, wouldn’t it seem a small step to say that,
because in an ordinary integrated person there is all sorts of activity
going on in separate areas that’s not necessarily connected to other
areas, there are multiple consciousnesses in an ordinary person?