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The master and his emissary criticism5/31/2023 This side is happier with the familiar, seeks to narrow things down to certainty, is less self-critical, sees things in isolation as discrete or fragmentary entities, always aiming for fixity and stasis. The left-hand (LH) side of the brain (which operates through the right-hand side of the body) apprehends the world, with a view to manipulating it, focusing on detail, the local, the foreground. That had been known since the middle of the 19th century, but only recently has it become clear that the two hemispheres have different characteristics. IAIN MCGILCHRIST’S The Matter with Things is a sequel to his previous volume The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (2009), in which he argued powerfully for the crucial importance of the notion that human beings, along with virtually all sentient creatures, have a brain split into two hemispheres, physically linked by a narrow corridor, the corpus callosum, across which there is only limited contact.
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