I read a couple interesting things in a Scientific American column: "The reason dualism is intuitive is because the brain does not perceive itself," and "Children and adults alike speak of 'my body' as if 'my' and 'body' are dissimilar." While I think there are a lot of interesting tangents from these statements (zen, physical training, &c), it also made me think of a book I'm reading for my thesis. So the dualism I thought of was between the concepts of East and West (cultural hemispheres, that is). What I'm wondering is that is there a connection between that mind/body point and a perception of the world being split that way because the world entire does not intuitively see itself as a whole?