Me, myself or I? (Image: Sandra Baker/The Image Bank/Getty)
Can science explain the self, or is that just neuro-scientific hubris? There’s no need to take sides
THE nature of the self, identity, and human values used to be the preserve of philosophers, but over recent decades psychologists and neuroscientists seem to have thoroughly colonised the territory.
For instance, in the 1960s Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga famously severed the corpus callosum in several people with epilepsy and found that the left hemisphere of the brain could be aware of things the right was not aware of, and vice versa. Then…
