Renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our 'divided brain' has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society. Taken from a lecture given by Iain McGilchrist as part of the RSA's free public events programme.
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This just confirms what Adbusters has been telling us all along: our society is too narrowly focused, and is filled with paranoia and mindless loss of self among information overload as a result. Thank you for this.
we live in our brains upside down,the pictures prjected by the eyes are up side down hence the crossing.
What a novel way to present what is normally linear data. It got my right cortex involved in what would traditionally be sequential thinking.
As far as the content, you may or may not know that since the early 50's (Sperry) and into the 60's (Vogel and Bogen) and 70's (Gazzaniga) data began to accumulate describing subtle changes in personality/consciousness associated with cerebral commissurotomy. Sperry received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his "split brain" research and it was anticipated that funding would flow from such a profound and fascinating discovery. However, the data was temporally diluted from an incursion into pop psychology and eventually finding its way into the common cultural lexicon.
Although I am personally interested in its effect upon the field of evolutionary biology, I would expect it to have implications in the fields of medicine, mental health, psychotherapy, behavioral neurophysiology, cognition, artificial intelligence, psychology of religion and many other disciplines.