"The left hemisphere says: I have understood this — I have taken it apart and named the pieces. The right hemisphere says: I am still attending to what is actually there. They are not two processors. They are two modes of coordinating with reality. And we have let the wrong one win."
Psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and literary scholar who spent thirty years arguing that the left and right hemispheres of the brain don't divide labor — they embody two fundamentally different relationships to the world. The left hemisphere abstracts, categorizes, and controls. The right attends, contextualizes, and coordinates. Western civilization, he argues, has dangerously over-weighted the left.