The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World with Iain McGilchrist
The Innovation Show
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Animals and Birds - What's the Difference?
I'd love if you shared that because animals and birds may not have the same problems posed by our frontal lobes to deal with, but they do already experience competing needs. This can be seen at one level in terms of the types of attention they are required to bring to bear on the world. And here you talk about birds in particular, because birds can be mapped very easily because their eyes around the sides of their head. But when it comes to most birds, other than birds of prey or birds like owls, they have their eyes on the sides of the head. In humans, it's not straightforward as that when you're using your left eye, it's going to your right
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