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

Hidden Forces

CHAPTER

Why Is the Brain Divided?

Many people played with me not to do this. They said, look, you've got a promising career ahead of you. Don't ruin it by looking into this hemisphere differences. Everybody knows that this is just pop psychology. It's all complete nonsense. Anyway, unfortunately, I resisted that because although many of the things that were believed turned out to be wrong, there were still important questions to ask. Why on earth would the brain, which effectively is a network that increases its power by the number of connections it can make? Why was it divided down the middle?"

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