In one way, the hemisphere hypothesis is deceptively simple: the bi-hemispheric structure of the brain makes possible attending to the world simultaneously in two otherwise incompatible ways. It is the implications of this that are manifold. Immediately it gives rise to a number of further hypotheses: that this is a requirement of survival; that th

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Using McGilchrist’s terminology: for such an increasingly delusional, left hemisphere dominated mind everything turns into just another inanimate object: be it a beautiful 5000 year old tree, or a rich indigenous culture. Something which stands in the way of getting from point A to point B on the map (or standing in-between the selfish individual a... See more

drew this theory from Iain McGilchrist’s epic book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. McGilchrist, a Scottish psychiatrist, believes the modern brain is dangerously out of balance. Over the past two hundred years, our analytical left hemispheres have reshaped the world in ways that threaten our well-

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