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) →

  I discovered Iain McGilchrist while listening to an interview he did with Jordan Peterson on The Jordan Peterson podcast, which can be heard here. Upon hearing about his book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, I knew it would figure heavily into my dissertation, the basic thesis of … Continue reading Introduction to The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist →