The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World with Iain McGilchrist
The Innovation Show
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How to Survive the World Without One Center of Consciousness
Every living thing has an asymmetrical neural network down to the most ancient creature that we know of, 700 million years old. Birds and animals use their hemispheres differently because they have to solve this conundrum of how to manipulate the world and yet survive it. They need to be able to pay attention to a detail in order to see very precisely a seed on the background of grit or gravel. This is an impossibility with one center of consciousness. You would need two centers of consciousness as you dispose your center of consciousness into completely incompatible ways at the same time. We live in a world in which we've got so addicted to grabbing and getting and what is efficient in basically getting stuff first,
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