The divided nature of our reality has been a consistent observation since   
   humanity has been sufficiently self-conscious to reflect on it. 107 That most   
   classical representative of the modern self-conscious spirit, Goethe's Faust,   
   famously declared that †  
   ˜two souls, alas! dwell in my breast’ (‘Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner   
   Brust’). 108 Schopenhauer described two completely distinct forms of   
   experience (‘zwei völlig heterogene Weisen gegebene Erkenntniß’); 109   
   Bergson referred to two    
   different orders of reality (‘deux   
   réalités d'ordre différent’). 110 Scheler described the human being as a   
   citizen of two worlds (‘Bürger zweier Welten’) and said that all great   
   European philosophers, like Kant, who used the same formulation, had seen as   
   much. 111 What all    
   these point to is the fundamentally divided nature of mental experience.   
      
   When one puts that together with the fact that the brain is divided into two   
   relatively independent chunks which just happen broadly to mirror the very   
   dichotomies that are being pointed to – alienation versus engagement,   
   abstraction versus incarnation,   
    the categorical versus the unique, the general versus the particular, the   
   part versus the whole, and so on – it seems like a metaphor that might have   
   some literal truth. But if it turns out to be ‘just’ a metaphor, I will be   
   content. I have a high    
   regard for metaphor. It is how we come to understand the world.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)