Though I have abandoned reading McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things, I’m still noting how many people who know nothing about the hemispheres of the brain nevertheless see our internal divides. For insistence, here’s KoΕakowski from The Presence of Myth:
Metaphysical questions and beliefs reveal an aspect of human existence not revealed by scientific questions and beliefs, namely, that aspect that refers intentionally to nonempirical unconditioned reality. The presence of this intention does not guarantee the existence of the referents. It is only evidence of a need, alive in culture, that that to which the intention refers should be present. But this presence cannot in principle be the object of proof, because the proof-making ability is itself a power of the analytical mind, technologically oriented, which does not extend beyond its tasks. The idea of proof, introduced into metaphysics, arises from a confusion of two different sources of energy active in manβs conscious relation to the world: the technological and the mythical.
The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.
I’ve added a highly selective bibliography to Cosmos Malick.
The chatbot hopes for
Right-brain wisdom, but gets only
Hallucinations.
I’m starting a new website project βΒ powered by micro.blog! I explain that decision to my Buy Me a Coffee supporters here. If you want to go straight to the website, here it is.
A brief post on redistributing your media portfolio.