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

Hidden Forces

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The Left Hemisphere Impairs the IQ Test

The capacity for the left hemisphere to be in denial is quite extraordinary. It has a very high opinion of itself and of its own capacities. And it's much less intelligent than the right hemisphere. Most of what is measured by an IQ test is things that are done by the right hemisphere, not by the left. So we have created a world around us that we experience which is more and more like the sort of world they would model.

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