The Hemisphere Hypothesis Changes Everything

To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

To the man with a screwdriver, everything looks like a screw.

To the man with a Copernican revolution, everything looks like a nail and something to be screwed with.

Such is The Hemisphere Hypothesis.

The Hypothesis Turned the Bolts and Corresponded to Instincts

There’s a passage in G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy that has pleasantly haunted me for decades. He recounts how the “spike” of a personal god fit perfectly into the hole of the universe that he had struggled with. Once he accepted that spike, his mental universe opened and came together: “I could hear bolt after bolt over all the machinery falling into its place with a kind of click of relief. . . . Instinct by instinct was answered by doctrine after doctrine.”

That’s kinda how I feel about The Hemisphere Hypothesis.

I agree with Jonathan Gaisman: McGilchrist has effected a “Copernican revolution in metaphysics.”

It changes everything, bringing together science and philosophy, even theology, in a massive shift in thinking that, I believe, will eventually move all society, culture, and politics in a good direction.