‘The left-brain interpreter is driven to seek explanations or causes for events,’ wrote the scientist. ‘The first makes-sense explanation will do.’ Along with his team, who called these stories ‘confabulations’, he demonstrated it happening again and again. When one man’s silent right hemisphere was commanded, by a sign, to ‘walk’, he obediently stood up and walked towards the kitchen. When asked why he was doing this, he confabulated: ‘Because I’m thirsty.’ A woman’s silent right hemisphere was shown a picture of a pin-up girl. When it was enquired of her why she was giggling, she too
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