Since the Enlightenment, we have been suffering from an “overgrowth” of the left hemisphere of the brain. What are the consequences?

Ian McGilchrist, a British psychiatrist, concluded that our civilization uses mainly the left hemisphere of the brain, putting aside the right hemisphere, which according to the psychiatrist is crucial. What does all this mean? How does the structure of our brain relate to general civilizational processes? Can we easy make a jump from investigation on the functioning of the human brain to the past of ideas, doctrine of culture and history? […]