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Last Two Points on Divided Brain … I Promise

OK, two last points on Iain McGilchrist’s book entitled The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World … I promise. 1) Throughout his book (at least up to page 335, which is where I stopped) McGilchrist mentions something almost in passing that I believe has hug implications: depression […]

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Two Quick Follow-ups on the Divided Brain

There are two important points that I did not make in my last post on Iain McGilchrist’s book entitled The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. 1) McGilchrist spends considerable time taking the concept “selfish gene” to the woodshed. This idea was popularized back in the 1970s […]

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Was Descartes Schizophrenic? Iain McGilchrist on the Answer

Yes. I know. I haven’t written a Bowlby Less Traveled blog post in many months. I simply got to a point where I was only going to write a blog post if something important popped up on my radar screen. Something has. I’m currently reading a book by Iain McGilchrist entitled The Master and His […]

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Bowlbian Attachment Theory for People On the Go—Behavioral Systems

In my post of 6.26.18, I make a few observations concerning MIT astrophysicist Max Tegmark’s 2017 book entitled Life 3.0—Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. As a result of my read of Tegmark’s book, Amazon is now recommending books by astrophysicists. One in particular caught my eye: a 2017 book by Neil deGrasse […]

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COMMENT: Death to Death and All That Loss

For Christmas, a good friend of mine bought me a book that I just finished reading. I found it wildly informative and insightful. The book is Sapiens—A Brief History of Humankind by world history professor Yuval Noah Harari. For me, Harari’s book was like Paul Harvey on steroids. Harvey was a radio personality and social […]

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