Pitch for why McGilchrist's @divided_brain model matters: Lateralization is not just in humans but in mice & birds & fish, so there's gotta be SOMETHING going on there. If you try to understand the rest of the brain while ignoring hemispheres, you're going to be confused!
Why McGilchrist's hemisphere model beats System 1/System 2 talk
7 tweets · June 2019 · 23 likes · 0 retweets · read on Twitter
Eg I think that at LEAST 50% of the time (maybe 90%) when people I know talk about working with their System 1 & System 2 (Kahneman's terms) they're actually talking about their R & L hemispheres respectively. Similarly with triune model of brain, etc.
The obvious importance of the hemisphere axis to our experience of thinking & acting means that people are going to try to talk about it—so if they refuse to use hemisphere terms, they'll use others. This then confuses the meanings of those other terms!
(That's, of course, assuming that those other terms weren't already confused; I don't think Kahneman was confused about S1/S2 but other models probably come with such issues because they were developed during the Period Of Hemisphere Models Being Unfashionable To Talk About.)
(I've been tweeting on this topic for awhile; if you're now intrigued, check out this podcast metalearn.net/podcasts/ml41-… then my meta-thread below)
Also I've written a new thread with updated thoughts about the triune brain model and how it relates to the hemispheres.
oh and here's an actual introduction thread to the model:
