"I see poetry as the way of language under cutting itself,...as it were..., to do something that ordinary language can't do... The interesting thing about poetry is that it's very much right hemisphere dependent, because it involves all...implicit...things, like metaphors..., and tone, and associations of ideas, and so on. The right hemisphere is much better at this. The left hemisphere can read a repair manual for a lawnmower... There's a difference between certain kinds of language..." https://youtu.be/v4IeuIg9nGY?t=3425 #IainMcGilchrist #poetry
Dr Iain McGilchrist: We are living in a deluded world

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@jan it is wonderful to see that you have seized upon the same portions of these conversations that caught my attention as well!
@schaetzle Interesting! It reminds me that I need to write about some of this on my blog ; )