Because if instead we had seen it as part of a person, we would immediately have noticed that we were asking the wrong question. Instead of asking, as of a machine, what it does – does it ‘do’ reason, emotion, language, imagery? – we should have asked – as of a person – what's he or she like? How, in other words – with what values, goals, interests, in what manner and in what way – did it do what it did. If we ask this question – what sort of a way of engaging with the world, each hemisphere has, and thus what sort of a world each hemisphere engages with – we find a pervasive pattern, giving
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