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Left-brain thinking will destroy civilisation
- We can seek to control the world by reducing it to component parts we feel safe with, relying on our propositional knowledge and outdated assumptions about the nature of rationality. Or, we can let go of control and draw on the liminal perception of the right hemisphere, embracing a participatory knowing the extends beyond ourselves and into the wo... See more
from Lost Ways of Knowing by Alexander Beiner
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- The Divided Brain and Ways of Building the World, Or Ettlinger
Christopher Alexander’s insights about the built world have surprising parallels with the insights of Iain McGilchrist about the brain hemispheres.
McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher, and literary scholar who revisited and reinterpreted the roles of the tw... See morefrom The Nature Of Order - Webinar Series — Building Beauty
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