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Derek Parfit in effect denies Descartes's conclusion. He would insist that the conclusion is not nearly as innocent and straightforward as it seems. When Descartes says that he exists, he means that there is a continuing subject of experiences or self or ego, or whatever word you prefer, that exists. Parfit denies that there really is any such thing, and therefore denies that we can know that there is.

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Beyond the hype of left brain versus right brain lies the work of acclaimed neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga. His career was forged in the lab of Nobel laureate Roger Sperry, and together their trailblazing experiments have illuminated the differences between the brain's two hemispheres. All In The Mind - 14 November 2009 -

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Language, memory and intuition depend on rapid communication between both hemispheres of the brain. The corpus callosum is the conduit for that communication. Tony Grobmeier was born without one. Lynn Paul, a neuroscientist, tries to understand how Tony faces the world with a brain disconnected from itself. (YouTube)

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