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The Divided Brain with Iain McGilchrist, MD

The Nocturnists

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The Left Hemisphere's Point of View

When you have an empire, your prime value becomes control. The right hemisphere is perceiving that things are much more complicated. So when a society becomes larger than a small group we no longer really know one another. And in being able to put a point of view across, if you try to express the right hemisphere's point of view, you have a very difficult task.

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