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Iain McGilchrist - The Matter With Things Part 1

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What Is the Difference Between the Left and Right Hemispheres?

In the right hemisphere you see that things are all interconnected. They're also not fixed and certain, but always something coming into being. That we can only understand things in their context. Once we take them out of the context, as the left hemisphere does, they change their meaning. And where a lot of the meaning is implicit, we ruin it by making it explicit. We lose it. As we do when we explain a joke or paraphrase a poem.

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