The Master and His Emissary

The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

De: Iain McGilchrist

Narrado por: Dennis Kleinman

This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain - the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the "rational" side, the superior partner to the right. But is this distinction true?

Drawing on a vast body of experimental research, Iain McGilchrist argues while our left brain makes for a wonderful servant, it is a very poor master. As he shows, it is the right side which is the more reliable and insightful. Without it, our world would be mechanistic - stripped of depth, color and value.

©2009 Iain McGilchrist; Introduction copyright 2018 by Iain McGilchrist (P)2019 Tantor

a must read

for a better world...
a monumentally important work fir our current predicament.
all educators, all humans,all that work in government, please read and reflect

Most Important Work on Cognitive Science This Century (until McGilchrist’s later work)

One of the many reasons I wish Oliver Sacks were still alive is so he could absorb this mind-detonating research and these paradigm-leaping insights into the workings of the right and left hemispheres and their impact on our epistemological perception of reality. Iain McGilchrist is my new favorite neuroscientist after Sacks and the most significant one of this century. This book and all his work will change the way you think—and the ways you think about thinking.

A True Epiphany

Look at the moon, not the finger pointing at the moon. This Daoist saying is true, but this is a wonderful map to the moon, and a reminder that we should never stop trying to get there.

Game changer

The world needs to read and reflect. Anyone will be a better person for reading this book.

Vivid and stunning.

Absolutely and wholly stunning. If you can grasp the subject and it’s implications, you will step into the river and become something else.