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Gut First, Excuse Later: How Your Brain Writes Stories to Justify Your Instincts
In a near-silent lab, with only the ticking of a clock and the mouth-breathing of a furrow-browed doctor in a crumpled white coat, the patient sat in the warm buzz of mild sedation.
The researcher showed him two images—one to each eye.
One image entered his right eye, connected to the left hemisphere of the brain, where language is stitched together. It was a chicken claw.
The other image hit his left eye, sending information to the right hemisphere—home of intuition, pattern, and spatial awareness. It showed a snowy scene.
“Point to the related object,” said the researcher.
What he pointed to tells us something important.