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The Master and His Emissary The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

Iain McGilchrist

Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound—not just this...

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Huberman cited McGilchrist's book to illustrate the cultural shift toward leftbrain dominance and the associated problems.

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The master and its emissary.

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Huberman cited McGilchrist's book to illustrate the cultural shift toward leftbrain dominance and the associated problems.

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The master and its emissary.

He sees that one of the problems we're dealing with right now is that the left hemisphere is there and that these right hemispheres, even metaphors are problematic.

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