Iain McGilchrist – The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
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Do We Need More Polymaths?
We've become too much a world of specialists and that we, what we need are more polymaths. The knowledge that comes from consulting the left hemisphere is only valuable once it's taken back into the big picture and enriches it. We do need polymaths yes very much so. Yes, there are moral implications because the left hemisphere has a much better sense of the self which is not the same thing. But when you become a fully mature adult you should have a moral sense of yourself - this emerges from society gets its meaning from society and gives back to society.
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