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Iain McGilchrist talks about two worlds without naming them.

There’s a problem here about the nature of the two worlds. They offer us two versions of the world and obviously we combine them in different ways all the time. We need to rely on certain things to manipulate the world but for a broad understanding of it we need to use knowledge that comes from the right hemisphere.


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Iain McGilchrist, The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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My names for the two worlds are mundane world (ordinary reality, brought forth by the left hemisphere) and primal world (nonordinary reality, brought forth by the right hemisphere | view rationale).

The newcreator inhabits mundane world, or primal world (or more commonly the two worlds combined), according to the particular situation.

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