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fact that the brain is left and right hemisphere which over the course of

evolution they have developed very different perspectives on the world and they have different capabilities and they create two very different sense of who we are or sense of self.

So your left... we are, our sense of self.

So your left brain, which is in almost in the bulk of us, the dominant hemisphere, creates what's called spotlight attention.

It focuses your attention on specific objects, which it looks to accumulate, grasp,

manipulate the world.

It's focused with consuming or acquiring objects that are useful to survival.

For example, if you were a bird, your left hemisphere would be focused on in the ground finding food or stuff that I suppose you could build a

nest from and so you'd have to be able to specifically find objects that were useful to you and

separated from the background. So that's what the love parade does. It looks at the world for just to find specific

objects that it has predetermined and over the course of evolution, the left hemisphere became not only the host of very spotlight,

fixated attention, looking for specific things. In human beings it became the host of language, advanced language skills.

And in the left hemisphere, the temporal lobe became far greater in size.

And the left brain develops much later in life.

It's in the background for our first three or four years, slowly developing a familiarity

with language.

To your left hemisphere, and by the time you're an adult is a kind of an ivory tower which lives

in this very sort of abstract representational world that doesn't actually mirror the real world out there turns the world out there into

words and stories and narratives.

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