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McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model         + buddhist concept of impermanence thread! (CC @_awbery_, @Meaningness)

The left hemisphere (which if you read McGilchrist you'll see is responsible for most of what is often called "ego" etc) orients to the world as being largely static, or dynamic in some manipulable way. Also fixed, separate, categorizable things.

The right hemisphere (which is responsible for much of spiritual experience, or even experience of *meaning*) orients to the world as being dynamic, process-based, etc. Also a basic non-dual (though not monist) stance. See also many Heraclitus quotes.

Both of these perspectives have truth (ie map-territory correspondence) Yet: "everything changes but we can usefully pretend some things don't" seems more true than the reverse. (Similarly "everything is interconnected but we can usefully pretend things are separate")

These useful oversimplifications are, in large part, what the left hemisphere is *for*; they are necessary for being able to usefully count things, plan, talk about anything (before it's gone) etc. However, fixated as true, they are illusion & confusion.