The left hemisphere prioritizes theory over experience

The left hemisphere sees things abstracted, isolated, and stripped of context. Because its thinking is decontextualized, the left hemisphere tends towards a slavish following of the internal logic of the situation, even if it runs completely contrary of everything experience tells us. This can be a strength, for example in philosophy, when it gets us beyond intuition, although it could also be seen as the disease for which philosophy itself must be the cure; but it is a weakness when it permits too ready a capitulation to theory. The experienced world transcends the deterministic views of the fundamentalist.

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References

• Mcgilchrist, Iain. (2010). The Master and His Emissary Chapter 2 What Do the Hemispheres Do (p. 101). London, UK: Yale University Press.

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