How The Brain Argues With Itself

Errol Morris continues his mediation on anosognosia:

[V.S. Ramachandran:] has used the notion of layered belief — the idea thatsome part of the brain can believe something and some other part of thebrain can believe the opposite (or deny that belief) — to help explainanosognosia. In a 1996 paper...he speculated that the left and right hemispheres react differentlywhen they are confronted with unexpected information. The left brainseeks to maintain continuity of belief, using denial...