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278. The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

The Left Hemisphere's Piecemeal Attention

If you start move and interact with the world, then you have the problem of the part versus the whole. Effectively, there aren't parts. There are only holes. And things that we think of as parts are holes at another level. But this business of carving things up into parts is an artifact of the left hemisphere's piecemeal attention. So is it reasonable too? Is it reasonable to assume so a bunch of thoughts have been going through my mind.

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