New Mindset on Consciousness By Roger Sperry As a brain researcher, I'd started out simply accepting the strictly objective principles of the behaviorist position. In the 1950s and early 1960s, all respectable neuroscientists thought in these terms. In those days, we wouldn't have been caught dead implying that consciousness or subjective experience can affect physical brain processing. My first ...

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS National Academy of Sciences Photo by Lois MacBird; courtesy of the California Institute of Technology Roger Wolcott Sperry August 20, 1913 April 17, 1994 By Theodore J. Voneida WHERE DOES BEHAVIOR COME from What is the purpose of consciousness Questions such as these, which appeared on the first page of Sperry's class notes in a freshman psychology course at Oberlin ...