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The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
McGilchrist notes:
Only the right hemisphere has a whole body image; the left hemisphere sees the body as an assemblage of parts, and as if it were an object in space alongside other objects, rather than a mode of existence. ...For the right hemisphere, we live the body; whereas for the left, we live in it, rather as we drive a car.
River Kenna • Solving McGilchrist's Big Problem (or, fix right hemisphere imbalance with these 7 weird tricks?)
Bolte Taylor, like Sperry and Gazzaniga, discovered that the hemispheres are like two contrasting personalities within a single mind. The left half, she writes, ‘thrives on details, details, and more details about those details …
Jeremy Lent • The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
The left hemisphere is constantly telling us the story of ourselves. It’s because of it that we can develop a concept of ourselves as a separate self, with a past and future. It’s in the left hemisphere that we generate language, finding words for things, categorizing them and formulating coherent sentences. And it’s the left hemisphere, fabricatin
... See moreJeremy Lent • The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
For the purposes of this discussion, when we say “left-brained” and “right-brained,” we are talking about two complementary modes of thinking that are at first primarily located as electrical activity in their respective hemispheres. They do not always stay so tightly localized. In people who develop in a healthy manner and remain relatively untrau
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Much as the right hemisphere understands the need for the left, but the left does not understand the need for the right, generalists appreciate the need for specialists, while the specialist is less able to see the need for the generalist.