Remember, these people weren’t making these errors because they were ‘mad’ in any sense. All the surgery did was enable Gazzaniga to expose the work of the interpreter. The discomforting truth is that we all have interpreters narrating our lives, and they’re all just guessing. We all confabulate, all the time. We’re moving around the world, doing things and feeling things and saying things, for myriad unconscious reasons, whilst a specific part of our brain constantly strives to create a makes-sense narrative of what we’re up to and why. But the voice has no direct access to the
