Recently, an editor wrote to me with the following problem: The writer whose novel he was editing wanted to include a scene where a character experiences a rare neurological condition called alien hand syndrome (AHS). With that syndrome, one hand literally does not know what the other hand is doing. For example, while the right hand is buttoning up a shirt, the left hand could be unbuttoning it.
In that case, the left hand appears to have a mind of its own. But does it? The syndrome has sometimes been used to argue for the idea that neurosurgery patients whose […]
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