Unfortunately, by being purely strategic in intent, the left hemisphere makes strategic mistakes, since it remains largely ignorant of the reality on which it relies. As a sophisticated computer would. And very soon, no doubt, will.
— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist
… it’s a novel, but reads autobiographical, written in the first person… it opens up with death, the electrocution of the Rosenbergs, the experience of seeing a cadaver, foreshadowing?…
… the introduction to Buddy Willard, who went to Yale, is that he is stupid because ”he didn’t have one speck of intuition.”, hmmm… i suspect that is right, true intelligence requires intuition, an ability to leap…