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Dear Jinan, You can find similar descriptions of the breakdown of the relationship between the right hemisphere (new knowledge of the world) and the left hemisphere (existing re-represented knowledge of the world) in the work of Iain McGilchrist. In his book, The Master and His Emissary, he talks at length (towards the end - it is a big book) of various times in human history when there has been a healthy balance between the hemispheres. Sadly, he indicates we are in a period where rationality (left brain) is dominating without proper recourse to the new and urgent information made available to the right brain. He is an excellent speaker and there are many YouTube lectures and presentations of his that I would recommend. keith On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:19 AM Jinan K B <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 'Indigestible' food for thought on cognition and culture > > I happened to come across writing in a Journal of Ayurvedic medicine > about a term called 'Prajnaparaadha'. Prajna means understanding or > Cognitive acuity and aparadha means misuse, offense or fault. > > What is really interesting is that there is a word to indicate the > wrong cognition. 'Prajnaparada'. > > This is similar to the way in Sanskrit there is a word for cultural > distortion. That is Prakruti meaning Nature, Sanskruti meaning Culture > and vikruti to indicate cultural distortion. I wonder why there is no > equivalent for Vikruti in English. Does that mean that there is no > cultural distortion? Is anyone aware of an equivalent word in any > other language? > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------