“The difference, I shall argue, is not in the ‘what’, but in the ‘how’ — by which I don’t mean ‘the means by which’ (machine model again), but ‘the manner in which’, something no one ever asked of a machine. I am not interested purely in ‘functions’ but in ways of being, something only living things can have.”

— Iain McGilchrist, on exploring the meanings and developmental peculiarities inherent in the common hemispheric lateralization of the human brain.

From: The Master and his Emissary — The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.