The evidence for this conclusion has continued to mount. In one patient, the career goals of the two hemispheres differed: the left hemisphere said that it wanted to be a “draftsman,” and the right hemisphere, using the left hand to assemble scrabble letters, wrote that it wished to “automobile race.”8 In another, the left hemisphere used the right hand to button a shirt, while the right hemisphere used the left hand to promptly unbutton it; the right hand lit a cigarette and the left put it out. Two persons, with distinct likes and dislikes, appear to reside—and sometimes quarrel—side by
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