The vast left-brain conspiracy - CultureLab - New Scientist
Plato, long before neuroscience, spoke of the struggle in the soul between Reason, Appetite and Temperament. This, neurologically speaking, has turned out to be the struggle between the brain's upper and lower regions. It's so last century.
But wait a minute!
Did Plato really consider the spirit to be capable of Appetite and Temperament, and did he actually argue that Reason could exist as a singularity in the vast unity of the soul? And if by reason more than ridicule, the upper and lower regions of the brain propose example of duality in all, much like the concept of Yin and Yang, then surely its much earlier than last century?
