The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 31 of 254

We don't miss what we can't access

Michael Gazzaniga explains one aspect of this when he discusses why it is that a split-brain patient ‘does not find one side of the brain missing the other’. His simple answer is that ‘we don’t miss what we no longer have access to’.

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