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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists…

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We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention…

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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to…

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“Our talent for division, for seeing the parts, is of staggering importance – second only to our capacity to transcend it, in order to see the whole. These gifts of the left hemisphere have helped us achieve nothing less than civilisation itself, with all that that means. Even if we could abandon them, which of course we can't, we would…

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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically…

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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by…

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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body,…

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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

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“When Lear cries, ‘Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?’, we could reply, on one level, yes – a defect in the right prefrontal cortex.475 But that just illuminates the fact that cruelty does not exist in ‘nature’: only humans with their left prefrontal cortex have the capacity for deliberate malice. But then only humans, with…

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The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building…

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“Language enables the left hemisphere to represent the world ‘off-line’, a conceptual version, distinct from the world of experience, and shielded from the immediate environment, with its insistent impressions, feelings and demands, abstracted from the body, no longer dealing with what is concrete, specific, individual, unrepeatable, and constantly changing, but with a disembodied representation of the world, abstracted, central, not…

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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture…

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“Every thing that purports to be the truth is, according to Heidegger, inevitably an approximation and true things, things that really are, rather than…

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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the…

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