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The Emerging Mind: The Reith Lectures 2003What happens? Well what happened actually as often happens in science - neither! OK? I stood on her right, so she is sitting here in her wheelchair I was sitting, standing on her right side, holding up a mirror, she looked inside the mirror, and on her left side was my student standing with a pen, holding a pen. And I asked the patient what do you see? What am I holding? The patient says, oh you're holding a mirror. I said, how do you know? She said well I can see my reflection in and it's cracked on the top -- which is true. And I said, what do you see in the mirror? She said oh I see your student John, he's holding a pen. I said, OK I would now like you to use your right hand - remember her right hand is not paralysed - to reach out, grab the pen and then write your name on the pad that's on your lap. Now of course you try this on a normal person and actually I have tried it on a normal colleague. You know you just reach, you know you see the reflection in the mirror of the person holding the pen, you turn to the left, grab the pen and write your name on the pad ...» |
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