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Saturday, May 20, 2023

Leftoholics Anonymous

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I guess the issue I have with these recent chapters is that I'm  pretty  sure I'm already doing what McGilchrist advocates (integrat...
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Friday, May 19, 2023

Complements Will Get You Everywhere

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Our next chapter is called  Logical Paradox , and there is much in it that goes to what we call orthoparadox, which the Aphorist describes b...
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Thursday, May 18, 2023

Never Send a Human To Do a Machine's Job

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The last few chapters have been somewhat conventional, but this next one -- called  Reason's Progeny  -- had me repeatedly muttering to ...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

What Contains Everything But Can Never Be Contained?

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The  nous  or  intellectus  makes its first appearance on p. 548. In contrast to largely left hemispheric reason, it is deeper and richer, m...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Wholeness, Interiority, Relation, and Other Big Reasons

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This next chapter is called  The Science of Life: A Study in Left Hemisphere Capture , and while I don't know that the LH is responsible...
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Monday, May 15, 2023

A Model, a Map, and a Metaphor Walk into a Bar

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Despite yesterday's thankless effort, I'm still several chapters ahead of you all, when the original plan was to keep the chapter-to...
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Sunday, May 14, 2023

Happy Mother-Infant Transitional Space Day

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I slept late and wasn't going to post, but since my progress in the book is starting to run ahead of the posts, perhaps a short one to c...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

The Last Temptation of Bob, AKA Normality

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In the chapter I'm currently reading, Science's Claims on Truth , the limitations of McGilchrist's approach become more apparent...
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Friday, May 12, 2023

What Have We Unlearned?

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As we come to the conclusion of Part One, what have we learned? First, that hemispheric differences "are stark in every area relevant t...
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Thursday, May 11, 2023

Second Look at Witch Trials?

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If you saw the CNN townhall last night, the Nasty Woman who hosted it is the perfect image of LH tyranny imposing its ideological grid over ...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Red Pilling the Right Hemisphere

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Have you ever become depressed and exiled from the bonus dimensions of the cosmos? In McGilchrist's discussion of what mental illness ca...
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Tuesday, May 09, 2023

Abnormal Normality & Normal Abnormality

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This last chapter of Part One of The Matter With Things is on the subject of what severe mental illness -- e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar dis...
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