The difference, I shall argue, is not in the ‘what’, but in the ‘how’ – by which I don’t mean ‘the means by which’ (machine model again), but ‘the manner in which’, something no one ever asked of a machine. I am not interested purely in ‘functions’ but in ways of being, something only living things can have.
Responding to a childs behaviour: the means may be conversational or physical, but the manner of the conversation (or physicality) has a distinct effect on the affect experienced by the child. So to the way the hemispheres perceive experience, based on their disparate manners of interpretation.
