The master and his emissary by Iain McGilchrist is a good work discussing the disconnect between the two ways of thinking in the human mind.
You can't unsee it in the end, that intuitive truth can be different than the autistic tabulation and verification of data. The latter is important, but the human brain doesn't thrive on it.
And one isn't more intellectual than the other, even though the one might seem that way.
One way the enlightenment project arguably failed is that it was so focused on what you could mathematically prove that that it refuses to countenance any truth that couldn't be enumerated that way.
You can't unsee it in the end, that intuitive truth can be different than the autistic tabulation and verification of data. The latter is important, but the human brain doesn't thrive on it.
And one isn't more intellectual than the other, even though the one might seem that way.
One way the enlightenment project arguably failed is that it was so focused on what you could mathematically prove that that it refuses to countenance any truth that couldn't be enumerated that way.
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