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In one way, the hemisphere hypothesis is deceptively simple: the bi-hemispheric structure of the brain makes possible attending to the world simultaneously in two otherwise incompatible ways. It is the implications of this that are manifold. Immediately it gives rise to a number of further hypotheses: that this is a requirement of survival; that th
... See moreIain McGilchrist • The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
The default mode network (DMN) is now believed to be where the neurological basis for the self is housed.
Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
... See moreSo the brain creates our experience of the world. Next it conjures us, the self at its centre. It is a hero-maker, manufacturing both the illusion of self and its gripping narrative, framing our life as a journey towards a hopeful destination. The story it tells even has a narrator, an inner voice that chirrups away, performing a live improvisation
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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They found that persistent self-contemplation and inquiry turns a temporary brain state of unity and love into a permanent, structural brain trait.
Martha Beck • The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
Much of our capacity to ‘use’ the world depends, not on an attempt to open ourselves as much as possible to apprehending whatever it is that exists apart from ourselves, but instead on apprehending whatever I have brought into being for myself, my representation of it. This is the remit of the left hemisphere, and would appear to require a selectiv
... See moreIain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
