[FRIAM] projection propaganda

[Prof David West]

I don't know, I can't read his mind, only his books. But, being the cynic that I am, I believe that as much as he distances his work from the superficial/pseudo prior work, he still wants to use that label as a "hook" to entice an audience.

davew


On Tue, Jul 15, 2025, at 4:44 PM, glen wrote:
> OK. I'll take the agreement in most of what you say. But not this part:
>
> On 7/15/25 1:39 PM, Prof David West wrote:
>> 3-L/R Brain Metaphor. It is not a metaphor, it is a label for accumulated observations, nothing more than a shorthand.
>
> There are plenty of other, more traditionally accepted, labels for this 
> stuff. *Why* do we think "left-brain" is better than any of those 
> others?
>
> I claim the answer is because McGilchrist truly believes in his *lift* 
> from individual bicameral brain stuff all the way up to things like 
> "the sacred". And if that's not the case, that why not use either an 
> unladen term (coin something like so many do) or try to find a 
> traditional label that best fits?
>
> But p.s. thanks for saying that there are *some* things that are not 
> metaphors. 8^D There are some of us that seem to think everything's a 
> metaphor.
>
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