ABSTRACT
In making the above case, I start with an observation: IPE today looks a lot like a split brain. The discipline (or at least our current perception of it) displays the
characteristics of a patient whose corpus callosum – the mass of nerve fibres connecting the left and right sides of the cerebral cortex – has been severed. The two halves of the brain have started to function independently of one another. Each side is more or less perfectly capable of performing the basic functions of eating, talking and walking. However, the right and left brains see the world in different ways, and they can actually disagree on how they interpret their environment. Depending on which side of the brain receives input, the patient will display different cognitive abilities and behavioral characteristics. In colloquial terms, we understand this to produce ‘right-brain’ versus ‘left-brain’ personality types.1
