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Recent studies on the differentiation of the human brain hemispheres have established that regardless of their essential interaction, the hemispheres have different functions; the left hemisphere is oriented towards the processing of detailed observation and information whereas the right hemisphere is dominantly engaged in peripheral experiences and the perception of entities. Besides, the right hemisphere is also oriented towards emotional processes while the left deals with concepts, abstractions and language.

It seems that the recognition of atmospheric entities takes place in a peripheral and subconscious manner primarily through the right hemisphere. In his challenging and thorough book Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, Iain McGilchrist assigns the task of peripheral perception and the integration of the multifarious aspects of experience to the right hemisphere: ‘The right hemisphere alone attends to the peripheral field of vision from which new experience tends to come; only the right hemisphere can direct attention to what comes to us from the edges of our awareness, regardless of the side. […] So, it is no surprise that phenomenologically it is the right hemisphere that is attuned to the apprehension of anything new’.⁷⁹ The right hemisphere, with its greater integration power, is constantly searching for patterns in things. In fact, its understanding is based on complex pattern recognition.⁸⁰