“The process of mimesis is one of intention, aspiration, attraction, and empathy, drawing heavily on the right hemisphere, whereas copying is the following of disembodied procedures and algorithms, and is left-hemisphere based. The distinction is similar to that sometimes claimed between metaphor on the one hand, and simile on the other: …simile has no interiority…” {emphasis mine]

— Iain McGilchrist, The Master an His Emissary, pp. 249