Perhaps to get the book review going we need a little music; this classic from Pink Floyd (Money, from Dark Side of the Moon (1973) will do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0kcet4aPpQ&list=PLEQdwrAGbxncZFLH4KETau3-uncnqVtWD&index=6
With the mood set, I turn to the task of mentioning two remarkable books in the metaphysics of the human mind, neurophilosophy: Ian McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2010), and Roderick Tweedy, The God of the Left Hemisphere: Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation, (Karnac Books, London, 2013). These are big, heavy books, physically and intellectually. The Master and His Emissary, which is very profound, focusses upon the division of the human brain into left and right hemispheres. The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and is responsible for logical, spatial and ore academic processes and reasoning, including analytic thought, logic, mathematics and science and right handed control. The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and is the more “intuitive” centre, with artistic and creative properties, intuition and control of the left hand. As we know, most people are right handed, across all races, so human civilisation has been dominated by the left hemisphere, especially in the West.