The only path to truth

"Conscious experience is at the focus of our attention, usually therefore dominated by the left hemisphere. It benefits from an asymmetry of means. The means of argument – the three Ls, language, logic and linearity – are all ultimately under left-hemisphere control, ... [whose] point of view is always easily defensible, because analytic, ... [and] most easily expressible, because of language's lying in the left hemisphere: it has a voice. But the laws of non-contradiction, and of the excluded middle, which have to rule in the left hemisphere because of the way it construes the nature of the world, do not hold sway in the right hemisphere, which construes the world as inherently giving rise to what the left hemisphere calls paradox and ambiguity. This is much like the problem of the analytic versus holistic understanding of what a metaphor is: to one hemisphere a perhaps beautiful, but ultimately irrelevant, lie; to the other the only path to truth." (The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist, 2009; page 228). 

It is also so much easier to convey to another what can be broken down into parts, sound bites, as it were, than to convey to another a sense of what it means to be known as a whole.