Epiphany

So, take a guy whose corpus callosum has been severed. How this came to be, I don't know - let's save that for another day. Sit him in a chair and set up a barrier so that you can show his left eye (the right hemisphere of his brain) things that his right eye (the left hemisphere of his brain) can't see. Now show his right hemisphere a piece of paper that says "Get up and leave the room."

If he's the accommodating sort, he'll comply. Bring him back and ask his left hemisphere why he got up and left the room. He won't say, "I don't know," or "Because you've been studying me for months and sometimes you get me to do things that I can't explain." He'll say something like, "To get a Coke." He'll be completely convinced that this is true.

This explains a lot about my workplace.