Studies with split-brain patients, work for which Sperry was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1981, teach us that cutting the corpus callosum cleaves the cortico-thalamic complex in two but leaves consciousness intact. Both hemispheres are independently capable of conscious experience, one being much more verbal than the other. Whatever the neural correlates of consciousness, they must exist independently in both hemispheres of the cerebral cortex. Two conscious minds in one skull.
