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168. A Brain Divided | Iain McGilchrist

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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What Is the Left Hemisphere's Understanding?

In philosophical history and in the history of physics aon, there have pretended to be opposing views of the world. So does it matter? Well, yes, it matters very importantly for my philosophical project. Once you know how the left hemisphere sees and how the right hemisphere tends to see things, you can see the whole mark of the left hemisphere's understanding on a certain scientific standpoint. And you can also see the imprint of the right hemisphere in certain other ways of reasoning and of science and philosophy. This is very important, because up till now, we've never been able to judge between these two. I just wanted to say that, because it's behind the whole philosophical drift of my book

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