In the late seventeenth century, the left brain launched an all-out war on its counterpart, starting in Europe and what would become the United States. Today, this war is known as the Enlightenment, a movement of philosophers and scientists who set the cultural expectation that analytical, left-brain thinking was best. I mean, could there be a better slogan for how our left brain views the world than Descartes’s “I think, therefore I am”? Or Immanuel Kant’s statement “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher
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