Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/04918_Field_OMDK T17.txt

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Right and left brain don’t phase me really. What
really interests me is left and right visual fields
because those are really anatomical realities. The
brain—we don’t know what kind of real
collaboration goes on between the right and left.
But we know—and we know this from like hundreds
of experiments—that the right visual field and the
left visual field see the same thing, but differently.
That is, the analysis of the field or the seizing of
that field by the whole thinking and perceiving
being are different.

It’s a bit like holding a bread knife if you are right-
handed. You hold the bread with your left hand