Dr Iain McGilchrist: We Are Living in a Deluded World
One way of looking at the difference would be to say that while the left hemisphere's raison d'être is to narrow things down to a certainty, the right hemisphere's is to open them up into possibility. In life we need both. In fact for practical purposes, narrowing things down to a certainty, so that we can grasp them, is more helpful. But it is
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The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
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The world of the left hemisphere, dependent on denotative language and abstraction, yields clarity and power to manipulate things that are known, fixed, static, isolated, decontextualised, explicit, disembodied, general in nature, but ultimately lifeless. The right hemisphere, by contrast, yields a world of individual, changing, evolving,
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Then comes Part II. Here I address the main paths that are open to us to take in our approach to truth. I take these to be science, reason, intuition and imagination. In each case I look at the strengths and limitations attendant on them; and bring to bear philosophical and psychological evidence and argument. I also look at what is contributed in
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