Ashwani Gupta

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When asked how many seizures she had following her operation, her right hand held up two fingers. Her left hand then reached over and forced the fingers on her right hand down. After trying several times to tally her seizures, she paused and then simultaneously displayed three fingers with her right hand and one with her left. When Mark pointed out this discrepancy, the patient commented that her left hand frequently did things on its own.
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist (The MIT Press)
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