My simplistic bias at this point is to favour technologies that diminish the influence of the left hemisphere in order to help us gain greater access to the forces that work through the right. I recall the experiment where just fifteen minutes of hemispheric suppression on ordinary subjects could either shift their mindset towards psychopathic deta... See more

two modes of experience McGilchrist describes (one associated with the left hemisphere, the other with the right) match up pretty precisely with two modes of experience that have been described again and again elsewhere, from Taoism1 to John Keats' letters2 to Federico Campagna's philosophy3 to Proust — you can even see it in things like Finite &am... See more