The sense of a unified self is robust

Despite these enormous upheavals, ‘sense of self is generally pretty robust,’ says Broks. The split selves of the commissurotomy patients, for instance, only emerge in specific experimental conditions. In real life, they find ways of retaining a unified experience of the world. Even with a split brain, we are able to function as though we had a unified mind.

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