Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Great Regulars: Because he acquires flickers of a right-brain

consciousness that conflict with his rule-bound programming.

So what does this say about our contemporary condition? Well, we are becoming borderline schizophrenics. Schizophrenia used to be regarded as a return to a childlike state, but is now more accurately seen as a kind of hypersensitive, hyperaware paralysis of the mind. It seems to be a product of an overactive left brain.

from Bryan Appleyard: The Sunday Times: Divide and rule: man is the new machine

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