The Master and His Emissary

At its simplest, a world where there is ‘betweenness’, and one where there is not.

Our incapacity to see the most apparently obvious features of the world around us, if they do not fit the template we are currently working with (part of what Noë and O'Regan have dubbed ‘the grand illusion’),109 is so entrenched that it is hard to know how we can ever come

He explains that he saw a chicken, and of course chose the shovel because

When we put ourselves in others’ shoes, we are using the right inferior parietal lobe, and the right lateral prefrontal cortex, which is involved in inhibiting the automatic tendency to espouse one's own point of view.195

anger.256 Anger is robustly connected with left frontal activation.257 Aggression is motivating and dopamine plays a crucial role in the rewards it offers.258

Mind has the characteristics of a process more than of a thing;

humour depends vitally on being able to understand the context of what is said and done, and how context changes it.

structure of the problem.316

We know it first, then are drawn to attend, so as to know more – Escher's hands again.

We see things by seeing them as something. In this sense too we create the world by attending to it in a particular way.