The Matter With Things Part 2 with Iain McGilchrist
The Innovation Show
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The Right Hemisphere Deficit Disorder
Time and flow in time are very important to the way we understand life. The right hemisphere gives time depth its continuity is flow like nature comes from the right hemisphere so that view of life as having a moment now can't be seen by left-hued people. A woman who had Tourette syndrome could not tell when her baby was due for feeds or change his nappy because she didn't know how long it'd been since then. She thought there were I think something like 60 hours in a day and 24 minutes in an hour but this young woman just seemed to have complete ability to understand them objectively or subjectively. It's one of the big topics of the book much later in part
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