![]() He talks about how an overactive left hemisphere will zero in on pieces of evidence and isolated incidents and fixate on them, without considering the larger context or how things are connected. ![]() ![]() My takeaway is that this hypothesis may explain a lot of what's causing the factional craziness in the world today. I just finished reading The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist, it’s a dense and massive book arguing first, that hemispheric differences are real, though much more nuanced than popular culture has led us to believe and second, that the increasing dominance of the left hemisphere is responsible for much of what makes Western culture unique, but also responsible for much of what ails it as well.īroadly, the left is the half that focuses in on something, and breaks it down into parts, while the right is the half that assembles discrete things into a coherent whole. ![]()
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