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Took the time to crop this out of Feser's Philosophy of the Mind just for you.

Bottom part is this, if you're lazy.
>The behavior of “split-brain”patients is no less subject to interpretation, interpretation that can reflect the enthusiastic theorizing of the researcher as much as the objective facts.To begin with,
the two hemispheres of the brains of such patients are not completely disconnected – there are other connections between the halves that remain undisturbed, and thus there are no grounds for insisting that the halves must be associated with different “minds.” Furthermore, under ordinary conditions, such patients behave more or less normally, or at least not in any way that suggests that more than a single mind occupies their bodies. It is only in contrived experimental contexts that they can be made to exhibit remarkable behavior, and even then that behavior is by no means obviously best interpreted as involving a “division” of the mind. Many researchers hold instead that such behavior,when examined carefully,amounts to little more than a variation on the awkwardness,failure of co-ordination,or general cognitive malfunctioning that can result from any serious injury to the brain,or an exaggeration of the absent-mindedness or incoherence that we all exhibit from time to time.