It is often remarked that though it may seem that we face numerous global crises of different kinds \u2013 environmental, social, political, cultural, economic, psychological, and so on \u2013 these crises are interrelated. The term \u2018metacrisis\u2019 has been invented to describe this predicament. However, these crises are not merely adventitiously interrelated because each has an impact on and reinforces each of the others \u2013 though that may be true \u2013 but because they share roots at a deeper level in a way of thinking about ourselves and the world. What are these roots? Hemisphere theory, deeply grounded as it is in Darwinism and subsequent neuroscientific research, shows us that a new, far more complex, and more nuanced, appraisal of the bipartite brain \u2013 the product of the last 30 years of research \u2013 brings new insights into the human condition. There are vitally important clues to the understanding of human cognition and motivation embodied in the structure of the brain. These clues help explain why certain apparently unrelated phenomena tend to occur together, why outcomes that appear paradoxical are in reality predictable, and why many attempts to remedy them will prove inadequate since they are tackling only the manifestations of a problem that we need to address at its root \u2013 both in the psyche of the individual and that of a civilization viewed as a whole. \u2018Know thyself\u2019 commanded the Delphian oracle: we need urgently to learn to do so, and this synergy of philosophy and neuroscience appears to offer the most promising way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is often remarked that though it may seem that we face numerous global crises of different kinds \u2013 environmental, social, political, cultural, economic, psychological, and so on \u2013 these crises are interrelated. The term \u2018metacrisis\u2019 has been invented to describe this predicament. However, these crises are not merely adventitiously interrelated because each has an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":108873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[542],"mec_speaker":[2016],"class_list":["post-108871","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-webinar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n