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Left-brain thinking will destroy civilisation
The brain is, importantly, divided into two hemispheres: you could say, to sum up a vastly complex matter in a phrase, that the brain’s left hemisphere is designed to help us ap-prehend – and thus manipulate – the world; the right hemisphere to com-prehend it – see it all for what it is. The problem is that the very brain mechanisms which succeed
... See moreIain McGilchrist • The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
There is zero evidence of how contemplation, emotion, self-awareness, reflection (not to mention poetry, art, and prayer), and the internal cinematic experience of consciousness help or have helped humanity propagate and thrive.
Rainn Wilson • Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution
In the view of psychiatrist and scholar Iain McGilchrist, we can indeed understand the current state of our civilization in terms of a battle of the hemispheres. In his deeply researched The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, he argues that the hemispheres are ‘involved in a sort of power struggle’ which
... See moreJeremy Lent • The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom
But there are still other paths to the abandonment of truth – darker than those we have discussed. In a world dominated by left hemisphere modes of being, two important developments could be predicted to proliferate: administrative control – evident in the decline of every civilisation – and machine learning. Both depend on algorithmic paths that... See more