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How Our Brains Model Reality & the True Nature of the World | Iain McGilchrist

Hidden Forces

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Is the Left Hemispheric a Rabbit, or Is It Not?

The left hemisphere is evolutionally developed to make snap decisions and stick to them. The reason why it's so associated with delusional thinking and delusional perception is because it jumps to conclusions, he says. There's a massive evidence that we do much better if we take into account a whole lot of different kinds of evidence,. And we can only usefully do that if we also use our intuitions.

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