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by axlprose 1413 days ago
> Just like the left/right brain.

To clarify, popularized over-simplified descriptions of the left hemisphere being "analytical" and the right hemisphere being "creative" are inaccurate, but left/right hemisphere differences do exist and appear to exhibit consistently different approaches to things. The book 'The Master and His Emissary' covers the more recent research in that area, and is at least as interesting of a read as 'The Bicameral Mind' was.
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ncmncm 1413 days ago
Neuroscientists have not been kind to "The Master and His Emissary.
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axlprose 1413 days ago
Unless you have a specific set of scathing reviews in mind, the reviews of it in the literature don't really appear to match up with that characterization very much:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13546805.2010.5...

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.1...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2828853/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-011-9235-x

> it is worth noting that the book has been much praised by neuro-scientists as diverse as Ramachandran, Panksepp, Hellige, Kesselring, Schore, Bynum, Zeman, Feinberg, Trimble and Lishman.

It'd be surprising if it were poorly received regardless, because the book itself is little more than a review of the relevant literature on the topic, packed with references, and some added philosophy about it's implications sprinkled on top. Not that much different from one of Michael Gazzaniga's popular books, and certainly not as out there as Julian Jaynes.

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