03328cam a2200565Mi 4500 ocn823723742 OCoLC 20200709055710.0 m d cr |n| 130109s2013 enk o 000 0 eng d EBLCP eng EBLCP OCLCQ YDXCP N$T 9781782410607 (electronic bk.) 1782410600 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)823723742 518396 (N$T) QP405 SCI 090000 bisacsh 612.8233 N$TA Tweedy, Roderick. The God of the Left Hemisphere [electronic resource] : Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation. London : Karnac Books, 2013. 1 online resource (353 p.) COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART I THE LOOKING-GLASS; CHAPTER ONE The origins of Urizen; CHAPTER TWO Urizen and the left hemisphere; CHAPTER THREE The myth of Genesis; CHAPTER FOUR The marriage of heaven and hell; PART II DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE; CHAPTER FIVE The God of reason; CHAPTER SIX Urizenic religion and Urizenic reason: R1 and R2; CHAPTER SEVEN The left hemisphere agenda; CHAPTER EIGHT Twilight of the psychopaths; CHAPTER NINE More than man: the dragon Urizen; CHAPTER TEN The Selfhood & the fires of Los; CONCLUSION Sweet science reigns. APPENDIX The symbolism of left and right in Blake's workNOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX. The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity. The book argues that Blake's profound understanding of the human brain is finding surprising corroboration in recent neuroscientific discoveries, such as those of the influential Harvard neuro-anatomist Jill Bolte Taylor, and it explores Blake's provocative supposition that the emergence of thes. Description based on print version record. Cerebrovascular disease Patients United States. Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical. Taylor, Jill Bolte, 1959- Health. Taylor, Jill Bolte, 1959- Blake, William, 1757-1827. Book of Urizen. Blake, William, 1757-1827 Criticism and interpretation. Taylor, Jill Bolte, 1959- Health. Metaphysics. Creation. God. Myth. SCIENCE / Cognitive Science bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Tweedy, Roderick God of the Left Hemisphere : Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation London : Karnac Books, c2013 9781780491011 Ebook Library http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=1102509 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=518396 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL1102509 YBP Library Services YANK 9957481 EBSCOhost EBSC 518396 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 52271 52271