" The different ontological status of the two hemispheres impinges on the meaning of all the philosophical terms that are used by us to understand the world, since both hemispheres think they understand them, but do so in different ways, each transforming the concept or experience by the context (that of the left- or right-hemisphere world) in which it finds itself. "

― Iain McGilchrist , The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World