August 28th, 2021
- on a call w people talking about The Master and his Emissary brain hemispheres model, and struck by how easy it is to pattern-match thinking that rejects other thinking onto the discussion of limitations of the left hemisphere
- although in principle McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model could allow us to get less dogmatic and judgmental about certain patterns of thought, because they can be understood as good functioning of a system rather than as intrinsically problematic
- Michael Ashcroft > "thinking isn't bad, but going thinky, ie losing track of the rest of the world to have a thought, is bad"
- Dunbar's number is probably overrated/overused: