From: litewave99@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 8:27:21 PM UTC+2, myriadsma...@yahoo.com wrote:   
      
   > McGilchrist hasn't actually established that those metaphors of opposition   
   and competition are appropriate. It's not at all clear that the left   
   hemisphere's activity is an act of 'will'. Even the notion of 'inhibition' is   
   narrative driven. The act of '   
   will' is on a different level.   
      
   The left is more active, assertive, due to its concentration of energy in a   
   narrow focus. The right is more diffused, moderate, hesitant... In this sense   
   I can see why 'will' is associated with the left hemisphere. But the two   
   hemispheres form a whole,    
   and the whole is conscious of both hemispheres and regulates them in   
   accordance with its wishes, I imagine. But its wishes subsume the wishes of   
   the two hemispheres, so it's an entangled mess, in which the wishes of the   
   left hemisphere may dominate at    
   first because of its more assertive nature and its more intense consciousness   
   (ego is the 'center of consciousness' in Jungian psychology), but over time,   
   as the whole (as well as the individual hemispheres) learn from the experience   
   of unsatisfactory or    
   unwanted consequences of too much left hemisphere activity, this activity will   
   be jointly attenuated or redirected so as to produce a more desirable   
   experience for both hemispheres and the whole. This may be a quick playful   
   correction or a protracted    
   painful process or in the worst case scenario the system may become so   
   imbalanced that it self-destructs.   
      
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