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While experience is enriched by the opposite process, whereby the products of the right hemisphere are sent to the left hemisphere for ‘unpacking’, there is no necessity for that process. One process is literally vital: the other is not.
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Reflects the underlying falacy of my rejection of Shakespeare's statement 'a rose by any other name smells as sweet'. The abstract understanding does enhance one's appreciation of the rose but that wouldn't be either neccesary or possible without the capacity to detect it's scent in the first place nor does it change the scent itself, merely the complexity of it's being smelt; The divide between perception and conception. The first can be informed by the other but the latter cant exists without the first. All understanding is built on understandings.
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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