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168. A Brain Divided | Iain McGilchrist

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Left and Right Hemispheres of the Universe

There are two neuronal masses that can direct attention at the wrld. The left hemisphere tends to specialize in targeted, precise attention and the right hemisphere in a much broader, vigilant kind of attention which actually sustains the being of the world. Nothing about these tiny fragments that are isolated, disconnected, meaningless ar gives you any idea of their meaning. It's only when you see the broad picture and you understand that they are not actually things that go to be put together to make that broad picture, but are things that are isolated out of an already connected picture. I just wanted to pick up your thing about er ecause i don't think it's quite right to say that the left hemisp

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