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

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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

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