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Left Sees a Map, Right Sees the Terrain
The left hemisphere has a map of the world—seeing things as clear, sharp, distinct, dead, decontextualized, abstract, and disembodied, which then have to be assembled like building a machine—while the right hemisphere sees the actual terrain that is mapped: an immensely complex, nonlinear, embedded, changing, flowing, never-constant, ramifying world.
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Iain McGilchristEvidence Quote
“the left hemisphere has a map of the world; and the right hemisphere sees the terrain that is mapped.”
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:15:28 AM
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