What if the Right Brain was the Master and the Left Brain was his Emissary?
Does the structure of our brain shape the course of human creativity? In this episode of The Mad Genius Thesis, we explore The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist, examining the profound influence of the brain’s hemispheres on culture, art, and intellectual history.
McGilchrist argues that the right hemisphere, which sees the world holistically, and the left hemisphere, which focuses on abstraction and analysis, have been in a centuries-long struggle for dominance. Have we lost the balance that fuels creativity and deep understanding? From the Renaissance to Modernism, this episode explores how shifts in hemispheric dominance have shaped the evolution of ideas—and whether our culture’s increasing left-brain focus is stifling imagination and intuition.
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