The Master and His Emissary

governing values of use and pleasure.

And if it should turn out that one hemisphere understands metaphor, where the other does not,

Attention, however, intrinsically is a way in which, not a thing: it is intrinsically a relationship, not a brute fact. It is a ‘howness’, a something between, an aspect of consciousness itself, not a ‘whatness’, a thing in itself, an object of consciousness. It brings into being a world and, with it, depending on its nature, a set of values.

One could call the mind the brain's experience of itself.12

actively suppresses the right, to exclude associations which are semantically only distantly related.79

Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede.

It is the left hemisphere alone that codes for non-living things,173

structure of the problem.316

In the one, we experience – the live, complex, embodied, world of individual, always unique beings, forever in flux, a net of interdependencies, forming and reforming wholes, a world with which we are deeply connected. In the other we ‘experience’ our experience in a special way: a ‘re-presented’ version of it, containing now static, separable, bou