{"id":1547,"date":"2011-10-25T10:37:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2011-10-25T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:37:07","slug":"minds_askew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"Minds askew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iain McGilchrist, the psychiatrist and former English professor whose 2009 book on the human brain, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0300168926\/routyp-20\">The Master and His Emissary<\/a>, is endlessly fascinating, discusses his ideas on the meaning of the brain&#8217;s hemispherical divide in this wonderful animation:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dFs9WO2B8uI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That helps explain, among many other things, why we&#8217;re so drawn to the metaphor that portrays the brain as a computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iain McGilchrist, the psychiatrist and former English professor whose 2009 book on the human brain, The Master and His Emissary, is endlessly fascinating, discusses his ideas on the meaning of the brain&#8217;s hemispherical divide in this wonderful animation: That helps explain, among many other things, why we&#8217;re so drawn to the metaphor that portrays the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}