In the first part of this conversation, you alluded to a book that you were writing about metaphysics. The more important the area, the more you know you can't do justice it. But if i am right that the two hemispheres deliver two distinct, sometimes almost incompatible, versions of the world, then this has implications for philosophy. When we say we find this in the world, or we see that in the world,. we can't ignore the fact that sometimes we'll be swayed by one or other of these paradimes, if you like, or takes. Round this sphere, as you sort of go oser to the centre, you come to a very similar picture of the