The Matter With Things Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
The right hemisphere seems to be involved more with new experience, new events, things, ideas, words, skills or music, or whatever it may be, while they are still fresh, original and unique, and so to speak present, to the mind. The right hemisphere's world is present – or more precisely ‘presences’ to us, as Heidegger puts it. By contrast the left
... See moreIain McGilchrist • The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
"Attention changes what kind of a thing comes into being for us: in that way, it changes the world."
– Dr. Iain McGilchrist
Attention is not just another cognitive function. Attention is how our world comes into being for us. The altered nature of attention can appear to abolish parts of the world, collapse time and space, eviscerate emotion, and render the living inanimate. It is a profoundly moral act.
Iain McGilchrist • The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
Attention changes the world. How you attend to it changes what it is you find there. What you find then governs the kind of attention you will think it appropriate to pay in the future. And so it is that the world you recognise (which will not be exactly the same as my world) is ‘firmed up’ – and brought into being.