Ian McGilchrist
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first heard Jun 2010
last heard Jan 2011
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And I think this is in a way a a an image of what the w the relationship between the right and the left hemispheres.
That the right hemisphere sees a great deal, but in order to refine it and to make sense of it in certain ways in order to be able to use what it understands of the world and to be able to manipulate the world, it needs to delegate the job of simplifying it and
Turning it into a usable form to another part of the brain.
And if that brain that part of the brain was actually attending to it in the same way as the other part, they wouldn't be able to achieve this
Double act if you like.
And in the story what happens is that the emissary
feels that he's actually the one that's doing all the all the hard work here.
And doesn't really need the master, he's just an irrelevant.
And through his sort of pride and and short sightedness, the community collapses and fails.
The way that metaphor works in the modern world is that uh the the right hemisphere from all that we know of neuroscience
conceives the world in a certain sort of a way which is primary and we mustn't lose sight of it.
But the left hemisphere
has a n narrow, decontextualised and theoretically based
model of the world, which is self consistent and is therefore quite powerful.
And it becomes more important in the modern world.
It seems to have taken over.
There seems to be a process whereby
its vision has become the only vision and the vision that would be possible through the right hemisphere has been undercut and excluded.
There are a number of reasons why that might happen.
I mean the first is that I say in the book, I call the left hemisphere the Berlusconi of the brain because it controls the media.
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