Iain McGilchrist Quotes (Author of The Master and His Emissary)
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Iain McGilchrist Quotes (Author of The Master and His Emissary)
Nothing is real until your brain decides that it is.
Mo Gawdat • That Little Voice In Your Head: Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain
The left hemisphere world is characterised by what is familiar and fully expressible in language; the right hemisphere is more open to and attentive towards whatever is ‘other’, and can be only indirectly expressed. The left hemisphere is less capable of Keats’s ‘negative capability’ – ‘being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any... See more
Iain McGilchrist • Moving on
But what could be more illusory than the world we see? After all, in the darkness inside our skulls, nothing reaches us. There is no light, no sound—nothing. The brain dwells there alone, in a blackness as total as any cave’s, receiving only translations from outside, fed to it through its sensory apparatus. —Dr. Arnkatla Mínervudóttir-Chan,
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