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278. The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

The Right Hemispheric Understanding

i sometimes say that the two kinds of understanding given by the hemispheres need to be combined. The right hemisphere understands the implicit, all the things that are not being said. And in fact, this world that that it creates for us is a rich, embodied, implicit, living world. But when the left hemisphere is working alone, it does see things that we would normally see as living,. as mechanisms, as zombes, as inanimate. So i've compressed an enormous amount into section of about 450 pages in the new book looking at these hemisphere differences.

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