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136. Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Left Hemisphere Manages That Wholistic Thinking

The right hemisphere manages that wholistic thinking. That's that low resolution thinking that generalizes across instances, pattern recognition, pattern generation and gross motor action. The left hemisphere is specialized for operation in explored territory. So now what we might say is that you spend your whole life trying not to have right hemisphere turn on. Because why would you want that? That's where the monsters pop up. It's still the way the world works....

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