The danger in having certainty, the cost in being convinced your personal belief system is a complete picture, is it blinds you from considering what else there is. This is the focus of Deleuze's philosophy.
Dr. Iain McGilcrest, an English psychiatrist and brain researcher, teaches that the natural division between the two hemispheres in the brain, correspond to the different types of thinking described by Deleuze. This emblematic polarization plays out in the expression of our culture and society. McGilcrest describes what he thinks can be done:
People always say "but I'm so small the world's so big ,and the world is so small in relation to the cosmos," well this is the left hemisphere thinking that importance is measurable, but it isn't.
You are very important and there are things you can do that that only you can do that change the way in which you understand the world and that will change the world.
If you get enough people to change the way they think, feel, and see the world that will produce the change.
There's nothing impractical about changing your heart and mind, in fact it's necessary for our salvation and for your happiness and fulfillment as a human being.
-- Dr. Iain McGilcrest (Video)
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