Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) allows researchers to painlessly stimulate or suppress specific brain areas depending on the frequency of pulses, and when applied to knock out one hemisphere, it instantly releases full-fledged, ready-to-go decision-making patterns characteristic of that hemisphere, showing that these patterns were present and ready to manifest even in the intact brain

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Ian McGilchrist

Evidence Quote

when you do that something full-fledged and ready to go is released so it's not like it was there you know when you when you knock out the left hand basically you knock out the right hemisphere you find instantaneously decisions being made which are characteristic of what we know to be the way of the right or the left hemisphere

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The Divided Mind: A Conversation with Iain McGilchrist (Episode #234)Sam Harris
Created: 8/11/2026, 12:21:55 AM

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