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- Title
Parity Cuts Both Ways: Split Brains and Extended Cognition.
- Authors
Bittner, Thomas
- Abstract
Opponents of the hypothesis of extended cognition believe that there is something special about brain processes. I challenge this belief in the importance of brain activity by examining some of the research into so-called 'split-brain syndrome'. People who do not have a functioning corpus callosum sometimes compensate by using a technique called 'cross-cueing', which is no more than talking or gesturing to yourself. I argue that since the function of this part of the brain can be taken over by 'external' channels, there is no reason to think that there is any significance to the brain's carrying out the function.
- Subjects
SPLIT brain; COGNITION; BRAIN research; CORPUS callosum abnormalities; BRAIN function localization; EXTERNALISM (Philosophy of mind)
- Publication
Teorema, 2011, Vol 30, Issue 2, p19
- ISSN
0210-1602
- Publication type
Article