Iain McGilchrist on value-ception

If Iain McGilchrist is right, then values are part of a conscious cosmos. Value-ception is immediate.¹ Whenever we perceive something, we perceive the unanalyzed whole, and in this whole its value.² This does not negate an axiological³ analysis of the original value-ception. We depend, however, on our right hemisphere for it to be disclosed to us. If we only rely on our left hemisphere we not only fail to apprehend it, but are led ultimately to destroy it.⁴

Notes:
1. Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things, p. 1738.
2. Ibid..
3. See my review of Robert S. Hartman’s The Structure of Value: Foundations of Scientific Axiology.
4. Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things, p. 1739.