one cannot say that one hemisphere deals with single items (‘units’), and the other with aggregates. Both deal with ‘units’ and both deal with aggregates. Thus the right sees individual entities (units), and it sees them as belonging in a contextual whole (an aggregate), from which they are not divided. By contrast the left sees parts (units), which go to make up a something which it recognises by the category to which it belongs (an aggregate). However, the relationship between the smaller unit and the broader aggregate in either case is profoundly different: as is the mode of attention to
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How over what; Right: parts identied in the context of the whole hence the capacity to recognise someone (whole) who changed their hair (parts) Left: parts identified as making up the whole hence the fun of breaking and rebuilding things from scratch
