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Different Attention Produces Different Worlds

Because there is no dispute that the two hemispheres attend in different ways, and because (as most philosophers would agree) attending to something differently makes you see something quite different, it follows logically that the two hemispheres produce different versions of the world; the cultural claim is not that brains changed over history but that culture and custom can blind us to things our brains are fully equipped to perceive.

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Speaker

Iain McGilchrist

Evidence Quote

if you attend to something differently, you see something quite different... the two hemispheres will produce different versions of the world. It's logic.

Source

Iain McGilchrist on the Divided Brain and the Master and His EmissaryEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:15:28 AM

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