This book argues that the division of the brain into two hemispheres is essential to human existence, allowing for two incompatible versions of the world. The left hemisphere is detail-oriented, prefers mechanisms to living things, and is inclined to self-interest, while the right hemisphere has greater breadth, flexibility, and generosity. McGilchrist takes the reader on a journey through the history of Western culture, illustrating the tension between these two worlds as revealed in the thought and belief of thinkers and artists from ancient to modern times. He argues that the increasing dominance of the left hemisphere in today’s world has potentially disastrous consequences.
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Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, author, lecturer, and former Oxford Literary Scholar. He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they arise – the culture which helps to mold, and in turn is molded by, our minds and brains.
Today Iain and Eric discuss his book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.
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Iain McGilchrist and I Discuss The Divided yet Connected Brain and …
- His book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
- That creativity requires resistance
- The differences between the two hemispheres of our brain
- How distinctions are important but divisions are invented by us
- The ways our brain hemispheres work together
- That our world is currently dominated by left brain hemisphere thinking
- The ways we might address the crises we face as a species and world
- How he responds to the critics of a right brain/left brain theory
- The ways in which our hemispheres are connected and work together
- The difference between our two hemispheres isn’t as much what they do but how they do it
- The 8 portals our brain uses to get information about the world
- The 4 powers we have to arrive at truth
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