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Iain McGilchrist: We are in a fully deluded world

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

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The Evolution of Attention

Every creature has to solve this conundrum: How can I eat and yet stay alive? So there needs to be two kinds of attention. The left hemisphere controls the right hand with which most of us do the grabbing and getting. Whereas the right hemisphere is on the lookout for everything else without pre-conception. They just depend on the way in which and the goals with which we approach it.

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