Alex O'Connor
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2,073 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
Alex O'Connor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The left brain is about sort of manipulation and the right brain is more like big picture.
And we know that this is the case.
I mean, McGilchrist's theory is that the reason this occurs is because as an organism, you need to be simultaneously looking out for like prey.
You need to be manipulating your environment while looking out for predators at the same time.
And there's some evidence to suggest that this is the case.
But birds have eyes on either side of their head, or lizards, which have eyes on the sides of their head, are really useful because the right eye feeds the left hemisphere and the left eye feeds the right hemisphere.
With us, it's complicated because they're on the front.
So with animals on the side, it's much easier.
And there's evidence of birds, for example...
If they're like building a nest, they will favor using their right eye, even when it makes it more difficult because the left brain is engaged in the manipulation stuff.
And likewise, you know, you could put a lizard in a room and put a predator and it will look at the predator with its left eye.
Even if you cover up its left eye,
it will still try to look at it with the left eye, right?
So there's some evidence to suggest this is the case.
And the same kind of thing is going on with us.
We've got these two brains and they kind of do different things.
And so have you ever come across split brain patients?
This was my favorite thing to discover ever in history.
is really famous within brain science, I suppose.
The two hemispheres are connected by this tissue called the corpus callosum, this sort of bundle of tissues.
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