In this conversation, Chris Niebauer explores the differences between the brain’s left and right hemispheres and what they reveal about the nature of the self. He speaks to the left hemisphere’s role as interpreter — the restless storyteller that constructs a sense of “I” out of language and pattern — and to the possibility, long recognized in Buddhism, that this self is more fiction than fact. Drawing on his research in cognitive neuropsychology and the insights of No Self, No Problem, he reflects on what it means to balance the interpreting mind with the quieter intelligence of direct experience.