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Intro thread to Iain McGilchrist's work, based on his mini-book Ways of Attending: How our divided brain constructs the world. "Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience." https://t.co/eys00Sn2vl
Forget everything you thought you knew about the difference between the hemispheres, because it will be largely wrong. It is not what each hemisphere does — they are both involved in everything — but HOW IT DOES IT that matters.
@Malcolm_Ocean Thanks Malcolm <3 I hadn't heard of IM, but this dovetails so strongly with some threads I've been consolidating & workshopping the past few years: social physics & idea flow, #complexityscience, community organizing, and the evolution/persistence of gendered dynamics.