The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGilchrist on the differences between the brain hemispheres.
It's really an under-appreciated 800 lb gorilla hiding in the middle of the room of neuroscience that the two hemispheres are massively internally connected, but the corpus callosum does more to divide the hemispheres than to bridge them, in an organ for making connections, a fact large enough to beg for an explanation. Each can sustain consciousness on its own. They construct two different worlds, and you can find echos of the two worlds throughout all of human endeavor.
It's really an under-appreciated 800 lb gorilla hiding in the middle of the room of neuroscience that the two hemispheres are massively internally connected, but the corpus callosum does more to divide the hemispheres than to bridge them, in an organ for making connections, a fact large enough to beg for an explanation. Each can sustain consciousness on its own. They construct two different worlds, and you can find echos of the two worlds throughout all of human endeavor.