The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

Psychiatrist Judson Brewer, at the time at the Yale University School of Medicine, discovered that these "open" or "closed" states of consciousness map onto activities of the posterior cingulate cortex and precuneus complex, part of the neocortical regions engaged when ruminating, introspecting, and daydreaming. Anger and anxiet

revelation6 is precisely this: that the left cerebral hemisphere of humans is prone to fabricating verbal narratives that do not necessarily accord with the truth.”

Such microfocus is the work of mainly the left hemisphere of the brain, responsible for linear, reductive thinking (vis-à-vis the right, which is responsible for intuitive, creative and holistic thinking). Social systems that encourage left-brain thinking therefore develop a culture of reductive, narrow-focused specialisation. According to psychiat