Ways of Attending - How our Divided Brain Constructs the World McGilchrist IainPaperback / softback
Ways of Attending - How our Divided Brain Constructs the World McGilchrist IainPaperback / softback Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. And nowadays in the…
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Ways of Attending - How our Divided Brain Constructs the World McGilchrist IainPaperback / softback
Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. And nowadays in the West we generally attend in a rather unusual way: governed by the narrowly focussed, target-driven left hemisphere of the brain.Forget everything you thought you knew about the difference between the hemispheres, because it will be largely wrong. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience.
And the prime difference between the brain hemispheres is the manner in which they attend. It is not what each hemisphere does - they are both involved in everything - but how it does it, that matters. For reasons of survival we need one hemisphere (in humans and many animals, the left) to pay narrow attention to detail, to grab hold of things we need, while the other, the right, keeps an eye out for everything else.
The result is that one hemisphere is good at utilising
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