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How has the divided brain shaped the modern world? In conversation with Iain McGilchrist

Nov 24, 202033 minEp 6Transcript available on Metacast
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Humans see and understand the world in different ways, ways that appear to map onto the brain’s function and in particular its hemispheric nature. But how has that ‘attention’ shaped the world we live in today? Nick Spencer talks to the former Consultant Psychiatrist and author of 'The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World' about brains, minds, cultures, and God.