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On Saving Our Concept of a Person

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Roland Puccetti
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University

Abstract

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Discussion
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1980

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10 I have given a fuller explanation of this, as well as a way to test for conscious duality in the normal human brain, in Puccetti, R., ‘Bilateral Organization of Consciousness in Man’, in Evolution and Lateralization of the BrainGoogle Scholar, Dimond, S. J. and Blizard, D. A. (eds) (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 229 (1977)), 448458.Google Scholar