PHL240H1 Final: Final Examination Study Sheet (short answers only) revised.docx
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The first part will feature five short answer questions. The second part will feature three essay questions. You will have to choose two of the three, and each short essay you write will be worth 25 points. The circularity objection to locke s theory of personal identity over time criticizes that locke s memory criterion for personal identity presupposes personal identity because it takes first person memories into account. Brain bisection occurs when the corpus callosum is cut, separating the left and right hemispheres from each other. Data shows that patients cannot create the word for the object seen with the right hemisphere (because language is in the left hemisphere), but will smile if their guess is right. Many people take this as evidence of 2 streams of consciousness. First possibility: the patients have a mind associated with the left hemisphere and neither a mind nor any mental activity associated with the (nonverbal) right hemisphere.
