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attacking reason, brain function, brain hemispheres, defending rationality, favouring emotion, hemispheric vices, hemispheric virtues, split brain

The current popularity of intuition and irrationality says the left brain is inferior to the right brain. In reality, there are two sides to this question! (Image: public domain)
I am always getting upset about the ceaseless attacks launched against reason and logic in these foolishly emotion-drenched days. The disciples of feeling would reduce human beings to unthinking bags of hormones. The taste for irrationality is growing.
Annoyingly, I came across just such an “attack” in G. L. Rico’s, Writing the Natural Way. Rico lists two sets of very different character traits, inferring that each set resides in one hemisphere of the brain. A careful examination of these sets (the items in bold below) reveals a clear bias in favour of those traits associated with the right hem
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