... it provide corroborating evidence for supporters of the 'two persons interpretation'.1 Roger Sperry (1968), the man largely responsible for most of the testing in both animals and people, concluded that the results confirmed the presence two mutually exclusive entities within each individual. The experiments conducted by Sperry (1968) allowed for the testing of each cerebral hemisphere and the respective sides of the body that they controlled, responding to a range of stimuli, including visual, auditory and other input. The results indicated that each side of the body would only respond to stimuli flashed into its own field of vision. Sperry (1968), Roland Puccetti (1973) and Susan Leigh Anderson (1976) choose to explain these results with reference to two separate realms of consciousness, and Puccetti (1973) goes as far as asserting that all people have two 'selves' within. However, the findings can be explained much more clearly and simply by not questioning ...

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