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#455 - Iain McGilchrist - The Wisdom Of Intuition
Modern Wisdom
Nemesstella Vectensis, a Neural Net in Every Living Creature
This is not something that arose in humans. All creatures need to do two things at once, keep a broad lookout and focus on a target. So they need to build a focus on something that they get, but be looking out for the predators and the rest of what's going on. That effectively runs all the way through two kinds of attention. One very narrow, very narrow, three degrees, probably out of 360 degrees, that's very sharply focused. And the other, seeing the broad picture sustained over many seconds or minutes. From one kind of attention, the world seems to be made up of tiny, unconnected fragments that are like little stabs in the world that have somehow got
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