Status Updates From The Master and His Emissary...

This is a bit like reading a witty British textbook, but I am making my way through! There were some interesting points on how the hemispheres tend to use specific types of attention, and the relationship they have with information processing! There seems to be a hierarchy of processing which goes right, left, right, but this seems to be the case when the Corpus Callosum is cut.

It's getting interesting! McGilchrist reports that the left hemisphere is more detail-oriented, hyper-focused, while the right takes a birds-eye view or a more holistic view. This is reflected in the lateralization and subsequent preference of mammals for doing certain tasks. For example, using the right eye (contralaterally correlated to the left hemisphere) for feeding while gathering information with the right.

My mentor mentioned that McGilchrist is quite laborious and after slogging through the introduction I understand what he means. McGilchrist teases interesting ideas but then double backs on himself. This is still the beginning of the book so I really hope he starts getting to the point as his writing feels very filler to me so far.

I'll be dipping in and out of this book, I think, from time to time, on the portions that seem to interest me most. Unless, of course. . .

Going good so far In depth complex read about the way the brain may perceive reality and its societal wide implications

Chapter 8 - good