
The Divided Brain with Iain McGilchrist, MD
The Nocturnists
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Left Brained or Right-Brained?
The left brain has a narrow beam sharp focus attention that exists for the purpose of manipulation. The right side is more open and stays vigilant and is keeping an eye on how things fit into the bigger picture. All neural networks are asymmetrical, all neural networks that we know are asymmetrical why. And it seems that this is to solve a conundrum that's very important for survival. But using TMS you can knock out areas in one hemisphere at a time,. You find that people describe things they would normally describe as animate like machines. If you knock out the left hemisphere, they describe things that they wouldn't normally think of as animate as a live like the sun.
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