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Ep. 5 - Iain McGilchrist and Stephen Blackwood: On Finding Ourselves Within the Whole

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The Left Hemisphere Is There to Help Us Understand the World, Not to Manipulate It

The left hemisphere is anything but calm and reasonable. In fact, the emotion that most strongly lateralizes is anger. It lateralizes to the left hemisphere. So it's a useful tool, but it's not the one that really understands what's going on. If i could give you a quick and dirty, sort of little catch phraseor what you call it, al sound bit,. The right hemisphere is there to help us understand the world, not to manipulate it. And in the past, no doubt, in politics, you can't make any kind of parallel between left brain and right brain or left and right in politics. Sometimes, if you like, the left in politics has its left

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