We Need Separation, but We Need Them Together

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Right and left hemispheres need to be separate, but not in a symmetrical way. One of them understands the need for the other. The one that uses the spotlight only because it knows less thinks it knows more. There is no such thing as a generality, except in your mind. It helps you see shapes and patterns. But there are no two people, no two blades grass, anywhere in this world that are the same. They are all unique. And ideally, those two things come together to make a whole person, a whole bird. That's what i'm trying to do with my new book 'Theory of Mind'

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Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, author, lecturer, and former Oxford Literary Scholar. He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they arise – the culture which helps to mold, and in turn is molded by, our minds and brains.

Today Iain and Eric discuss his book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.

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Iain McGilchrist and I Discuss The Divided yet Connected Brain and …

His book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
That creativity requires resistance
The differences between the two hemispheres of our brain
How distinctions are important but divisions are invented by us
The ways our brain hemispheres work together
That our world is currently dominated by left brain hemisphere thinking
The ways we might address the crises we face as a species and world
How he responds to the critics of a right brain/left brain theory
The ways in which our hemispheres are connected and work together
The difference between our two hemispheres isn’t as much what they do but how they do it
The 8 portals our brain uses to get information about the world
The 4 powers we have to arrive at truth

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