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

Hidden Forces

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What Happens When You Experience a Left Hemisphere Stroke?

Jill Bolt Taylor wrote a book called My Stroke of Insight that is extremely approachable and very short. It provides insight into an extreme version of what happens when you experience a left hemisphere stroke. What I also find interesting is the experience of people with right hemisphere deficits, because you were just talking about that a bit. And one of the things that happens is they become overly reliant on models.

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