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The Matter With Things Part 2 with Iain McGilchrist

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The Left Hemisphere Immobilizes the Left Hemispheric Mind

The left hemisphere turns the massively complex interconnected flowingness of reality into snapshots for which the French word is cliche rather nicely and so you get cliche little representations. It literally immobilizes it because it takes it outside of time to be in time as soon as it's a slide a snapshot a moment you think then it's outside of time and therefore frozen in time as well as frozen in space. There was some other stuff that I can't resist going into there was a beautiful little thing about animals prey animals are sometimes fixated by the stare of the predator and seemingly are unable to move but curiously consciousness never being just wrapped up in one head or in another there may be some interchange between

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