reading _The Master and His Emissary_ on a lowgrade high

on the prologue

some thoughts

1. emotional roller coaster as he alternates between sublime and cringe takes

2. why arent all of you talking about this

3. feels big. tentative on this. still getting a bead on the author

brains, the things the thing the universe made to see itself uses to see, seeing themselves

if i were a brain i would simply understand my own structure and function

this book is super good

observation: people dont usually think about experience and metacognitive training and development

just take minds as there or not, knowledge as present or not

certain models of integration work very well with his left/right framework

specifically speaks to my understanding of statistics and the manner in which I learned it

the back and forth between "model" and "intuition" in economics similarly

he keeps putting 'takes' in scare quotes

reasonable

going to continue this thread mostly to collect questions that fall out of the framework the author proposes

expect this will be extensive

Q1. How does hemispheric specialization play out in nonhuman animals?

- do eg cats have a rich but nonverbal inner life they simply dont/cant explicate for the most part

- (more questions once I actually read the relevant section)

Q2. How does contextual hemispheric preference/dominance develop? How much is raw genetics, how much fetal development, how much random environment, how much trainable; interactions thereof

Implications for the effects of schooling, media environments, specific learning methods