The Best Book I Ever Read: The Master and His Emissary
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The Best Book I Ever Read: The Master and His Emissary
- 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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This has the profoundest consequences for the way it sees the world, when contrasted with the take of the right hemisphere, which sees things as a whole, never as isolated particles independent of a context.
from The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning by Iain McGilchrist
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