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“... in Medicine went to three men honoured for their contribution to our knowledge of the brain: Roger Sperry from Cal Tech and David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel from Harvard. Their discoveries are stunning, counter-intuitive and of no immediate practical consequence. They are therefore widely unknown outside their fraternity. A further reason for their ...”

“... less than three kinds of indeterminism. Space forbids a proper discussion of them here, but since Roger Sperry’s book, Science and Moral Priority, is relevant to one of them they must be distinguished. The first is Popper’s theory of the objective nature of probability: probability statements, he argues in the first and third volumes, are statements ...”

“... factual material is often fascinating, though I was disturbed by the statement, in a discussion of Sperry’s well-known split-brain cases, that the left eye communicates only with the speechless right cerebral hemisphere. In fact, it is the right half of each retina – which scans the left half of the visual field – that communicates with the right ...”