McGilchrist continues his slog through the neurological evidence for his argument. The footnotes provide 535 references for this chapter alone. I am grateful for his efforts because, undoubtedly, most of this data is beyond my ability to understand without such a commentary. He has argued up to this point that human bihemispheric neurology results in … Continue reading “What do the Two Hemispheres ‘Do'” in The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGilchrist (part I) →

I did not address several important points in part I, so I will do so here. I want to strengthen McGilchrist's discussed relationship between needs, values, attention, and things, as well as highlight the distinction between Distance and Detachment. Needs, values, attention, and things McGilchrist states that the competing needs of life, both for animals and … Continue reading “Asymmetry and the Brain” in The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGilchrist (part II) →

In this first chapter, McGilchrist begins laying the neurological foundation for his argument that the bihemispheric structure of the human brain results in two different ways of being in the world. The most relevant material for my purposes is McGilchrist's discussion of how various animals with a bihemispheric neurological structure provide a phylogenic precedent for … Continue reading “Asymmetry and the Brain” in The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGilchrist (part I) →