• questions

    • how much of failure in sensemaking is because of groups of people looking from left-hemisphere or right-hemisphere

  • Book suggestion: drawing on the right side of the brain

  • Was anything particularly provocative or interesting to you, in Intro through Chapters 1-2? ((feel free to browse the "cheat notes" for a refresher))

    • found the chapter on attention valueable
      • Any attention is an attention. Not something directly related to the two hemispheres but brings to attention that caring about attention is important

        • "The nature of the attention one brings to bear on anything alters what one finds; what we aim to understand changes its nature with the context in which it lies; and we can only ever understand anything as a something." (Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary)

        • "To attempt to detach oneself entirely is just to bring a special kind of attention to bear which will have important consequences for what we find." (Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary)

      • Attention is a way in which and not a thing; it is intrincally a relationship
    • Why are there two hemispheres at all?
      • Maybe because two complete different attentions must also be visible structurally. Why? Don't know.
    • How does the Self from IFS relates to the divided brain map
      • john-verveake says insight comes from

  • Do you have any particular questions that you are wondering about?

    • how to understand attention in an ontological frame
    • do people with no left hemispheres miss on it?
      • I heard there are people with only one side and the other cut off

  • Do you have any objections or concerns to bring up with Mcgilchrist's book so far?

    • has been a bit dry but still captivating

    Links

    • https://roamresearch.com/#/app/Book_Club/
    • My notes on readwise (kindle)