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278. The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Right Hemisphere as an Anomaly Detection System
Right hemisphere is an anomaly detection system. Left has no choice but to impose its axiomatic presumptions when there's nothing indicating the lack and there's no pathway forward to a new representation. So you can have just an cataclysmic event, like your right arm is paralysed, and you don't deny it at all. In fact, you are appropriately upset about it. It has snothing to do with the left hemisphere's way of understanding things. But they also cannot imagine that there ever was a left half of the rai rit lrd, that there ever will be again in the future. Once it's gone from the left hemisphere’s attention, it ceases
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