The Matter With Things Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
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 well-
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The world of the left hemisphere, dependent on denotative language and abstraction, yields clarity and power to manipulate things that are known, fixed, static, isolated, decontextualised, explicit, disembodied, general in nature, but ultimately lifeless. The right hemisphere, by contrast, yields a world of individual, changing, evolving, interconn
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