(Visualizes the Confessor trying to explain that to the Superhappies.)
The idea that the right hemisphere is the hypothesis-changer seems to me to be countered by the said evidence: it doesn’t seem very compatible with the effects wearing off ten minutes later, and the patient denying having ever admitted to the paralysis. This seems to much more strongly fit a domain-specific ability to model certain facts, where the model substrate is sleeping, then wakened, then goes back to sleep again.
(Visualizes the Confessor trying to explain that to the Superhappies.)
The idea that the right hemisphere is the hypothesis-changer seems to me to be countered by the said evidence: it doesn’t seem very compatible with the effects wearing off ten minutes later, and the patient denying having ever admitted to the paralysis. This seems to much more strongly fit a domain-specific ability to model certain facts, where the model substrate is sleeping, then wakened, then goes back to sleep again.