
Ways of Attending: How Our Divided Brain Constructs the World

Solving McGilchrist's Big Problem (or, fix right hemisphere imbalance with these 7 weird tricks?)
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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

two modes of experience McGilchrist describes (one associated with the left hemisphere, the other with the right) match up pretty precisely with two modes of experience that have been described again and again elsewhere, from Taoism1 to John Keats' letters2 to Federico Campagna's philosophy3 to Proust — you can even see it in things like Finite &am... See more