I see this same dichotomy in Iain McGilchrist's recent work The Master and His Emissary, in which he proposes that the difference between our brain's two hemispheres is in how their perceive, the left being detailed-oriented and the right being whole-oriented. It's a beautiful idea, exquisitely researched and articulate in his book, but more digestible in a 12-minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFs9WO2B8uI.
On Sep 25, 2013 Cameron Boehmer wrote :
I see this same dichotomy in Iain McGilchrist's recent work The Master and His Emissary, in which he proposes that the difference between our brain's two hemispheres is in how their perceive, the left being detailed-oriented and the right being whole-oriented. It's a beautiful idea, exquisitely researched and articulate in his book, but more digestible in a 12-minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFs9WO2B8uI.