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Question 1

What form of exceptionalism does Rachel Fraser endorse?

Answer 1

Graspy exceptionalism

Question 2

What is graspy exceptionalism?

Answer 2

Graspy exceptionalism says that narrative is epistemically special because
narratives format their information in a grasp-friendly format. What is grasp?
Grasp is a privileged cognitive relation such that some target system or stimulus
is intelligible to one if one grasps information – information of the right sort
about that system.

Question 3

What is Thomas Nagel’s main point in ‘brain bisection and the unity of consciousness’

Answer 3

That, in the case of ‘split brain’ e.g., hemisphere splitting, there is no good option regarding the number of countable minds of the person, and that this should lead us to be doubtful that in the usual cases, there is one subject of conscious experience e.g., we take ourselves to be a unity for granted.

Question 4

What paper, and by who, argues that there is no countable minds when the hemispheres are split?

Answer 4

Thomas Nagel

Brian bisection and the unity of consciousness

Question 6

What is the phenomenon in which the corpus callosum is cut known as?

Answer 6

Split brain?

Question 7

What causes split brain?

Answer 7

The cutting of the corpus callosum

Question 8

What did the wedding of materalism to the fact that there appears to be two brains produce?

Answer 8

We have two minds! Two selves!