I'm in my mid 60's now, and despite years of atheism and skepticism, my mystical experiences eventually became too numerous to ignore. Then the doors opened.
Always been a don't know, now of 64 years & counting but due to a very short near death experience, preceded a few years earlier by what I can only describe as visions after my wife's death - Iain's work is like a growing light in what was once for me an avoided opaque corner.
Iain McGilchrist simply blows me away every time I read his work or listen to him speak. A true master. And hats off to David for conducting the interview so brilliantly.
I am halfway through 'The Master and his Emissary' at page 410 - cannot describe how excited i am to learn that Ian's new work is finally out. What a great man, not just as an intellectual but also as a person
I love Iain McGilchrist so much. I read Master and his Emissary and suddenly the world made so much more sense to me. He is irreplaceable and I would agree, he is up there with the most famous philosophers- even above them because he explains the differing viewpoints. What a gem of a human. So brilliant.
You might also like Rosi Braidotti. Don't be put off by the titles like transhumanism, which sounds populist. Her theoretical maps are so rich with research across classical and indigenous thinkers and quantum physics as a materialist. I'm trusting my intuition here that you'll like her work. 😉
A lot of this is very reminiscent of Michael Polanyi's concept of tacit knowledge. A decade ago I actually had an elderly poli sci professor, Maben Poirier of Concordia University, who gave an undergraduate course on Polanyi's contribution to contemporary epistemology that I just happened to sign up for on what amounted to a whim. At the time it seemed like I had embarked on an obscure, abstract journey into an antiquarian epistemological debate that only handful of people in a tiny class out of a cohort of 15,000 was studying. In time I would come to see it as far and away the best course I have ever taken and that it was a shame so few people were there to share it with us. To see the concepts we studied come back into the fore of sense-making many decades after Polanyi's era is quite nice. This is great stuff, thanks for putting it out there for us.
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Iain McGilchrist is one of the most insightful minds in public discourse to come along in a very long time. If you are reading this, Iain, may I thank you for your inspiring message. Keep up the great work.
This is great (it’s because I’m born and raised in Japan with Zen flavoured father and Catholic mother). I’m a gardener I learn philosophy from doing gardening. To me, Philosophy is like fertiliser. You can’t plant seeds in fertiliser. It will kill the seed. Fertiliser can’t change what the seed is. And I need bit of pesticides, weeding and watering. I feel bad when I play “god” choosing to pull weeds and let the roses and peonies grow and flourish. I wish I could love weedy garden, but I know I can’t. My dad used to say to my mom. “What a failure God is. Look at his creation how not perfect we are.” My mom understands someone like my dad believes having faults is not really faults. So she always gave a huge gentle smile to him. My dad promised to my mom he would convert to Catholicism after his parents passed away when they got married. He is showing no sign of doing it. I’m sure my dad will do so when he is dying on his bed. That means my mom has to out live my dad😉
On an Iain McGilchrist binge at the moment so this is perfect timing. A philosopher turned neuroscientist is someone definitely worth paying attention (
Have you also heard of the wonderful German psychiatric neuroscientist Gerard Hüther? His paper about ten years ago on how the human brain's empathic mechanics are the source of our intelligences was translated into many languages and.published in English as a short book titled The Compassionate Brain, How Empathy Creates Intelligence. Without drawing on philosophical theoretical traditions he does draw a long bow in putting human brains in the context of the rest of the living world, aka life/ nature.
He is channeling the old man archetype. bringing watts and jung into clear view for the lost post modern soul. I love this man and love even more that you interviewed him David!!! so epic. Cheers to this!!!!
I legitimately don't know where I'd be without this channel. It's introduced me to so many incredible ideas and thinkers. If I ever get a job and move out of my parent's basement I'll donate you my first pay cheque.
This is extremely similar to the Daoist description of reality. It’s amazing that high level neuroscience and deep meditative insights can converge in so aspects.
Okay, so I knew the McGilchrist was brilliant based on his last book but wow... this is on a whole different level. His new work will (and should) change the way we think.
Recently received these books - Iain is a real giant of an intellect and a deep sea of human soul. This work will keep me busy and wondering throughout the winter months!
I am deeply thankful these kind of conversations are taking place, open sourced and cultivating during a time of the likes we are experiencing. Amazing interview! Great work Rebel Wisdom!
I hold Dr. Iian McGilchrist is close to my heart and his books and lectures and with all who have discussions with him on various subjects. "The world is all around us." We that have this opportunity to grow and to gain more experience of depth of wisdom, one has to be in "awe." With the deepest appreciation and love to all that participates 🌄🌠 sincerely to support these endeavors of consciousness and subconscious of our brains. "I am the world, and the world is me." Krishnamurti with David Bohm, physicist speaking with others and then again, we have Alan Watts. 🙏❤️🌍🕊🎵🎶
Thank you and Iain for pouring a sack of diamonds here into this space. Much needed. I hope for this quality thought body to be recognized beyond all limiting believes caused by fear-traps that most humans are stuck in.
Amen. It is so beautiful to listen to Ian the way he expresses everything (and no-thing). It is the way I see it, but could not say it in the excellent way he does.
What an extraordinary thinker. Truly, a brilliant mind. If all of us collectively could apply just 1% of this approach to living, we would be in a much better place. Thank you Iain McGilchrist for writing such an inspirational piece of work.
Cannot thank you enough for introducing me to Iain and his work through this. He is EXACTLY the articulation of what my mind had been roughly trying to sketch out for the last few years. Looking forward to going back and reading all of his books. Thank you, thank you.
You cannot take to heart what McGilchrist is saying and not come away realizing how much trouble we are in. If what he is saying is right. And I believe he is. Then all our solutions. Including to this pandemic have all been completely wrong.
David, what a wonderful job you did here, enabling Iain's inspiration for and explication of the important theories that gave rise to this book. I'm so impressed with this interview; thank you!
One feels like one is present at a great event, a great unveiling and revelation of historical dimensions, and this is made possible as much by intelligent and relevant and immediate questions from David as from the height, depth, and majestic complexity of Iaian's elaborations. I have books I won't live to read, but I will have this great work and read it early in 2022. Thank you Rebel Wisdom for your vey apt midwifery, and Dr McGilchrist, for your devotions.
(Please note: the audio jumps slightly out of sync from 30:45 to 39:09 then returns to normal) Iain will return to our Digital Campfire for a Q&A with Rebel Wisdom members on Tues 30th November, to join, check out membership options here: rebelwisdom.co.uk/campfire-events Some previous conversations with Iain for if you enjoyed this one: Iain with John Vervaeke: ruclips.net/video/JdB-BMdgFbk/видео.html Certainty & Flow: ruclips.net/video/fI1ngqwH5us/видео.html
Iain McGilchrist on S. Pinker's over-optimism: "The right hemisphere is our bullshit detector; the left hemisphere is ... full of it". (Copied to my collection of famous citations ;-). But seriously, this interview was extraordinary valuable and enlightening. I listened to it twice and may do it again for taking notes.
Bring on more of the sense of wonder for everyone and an understanding of your brilliant and timely thesis Professor Iain Mc Gilchrist ,which will certainly give me a greater capacity to defend, what I have intuited for most of my life, should I have the good fortune to read and comprehend your two books.
the best best best in some time. I will need to listen again a few times. Get the book. But hey... Thanks both if you for such expansive and often surprisingly clear conversation about hard to grasp matters.
I am a fan of Iain McGilchrist and looking forward to the new books cause the big questions are with me every day. Thanks for this interview, excellent!
René Guénon's 'The Reign of Quantity' is a good precursor to McGilchrist. I'm surprised he wasn't mentioned in the index of 'Master & Emissary' - maybe he'll appear in the new book...
A truly wonderful interview by David in engaging Iain in his new book. The popular documentary The Divided Brain, a collaboration with Iain, is a good backgrounder on his work.
Excellent stuff! I really like the all-encompassing perspective. Very interesting thoughts - nice to get an almost metaphysical line of thought instead of the more narrow cultural discussions. Great interview! Thanks!
I´m currently reading the first volume, and it is as entertaining as dense. Don´t expect to plow through it quickly. It is worth every penny, it is beyond a simple monetary investment, because no other book would explain the current state of affairs as this one . Thanks a lot Dr. McGilchrist.
¡Beautiful enterview! And the deep and complex ideas exposed by Ian MacGilchrist comunicated with clarita and elegance, made this hour and a half, a source of joy for me. ¡Thank You David for such a brilliant enterview! More than compeled to experience (read,reflect, recognize perhaps...) the work of Ian MacGilchrist.
I think that Theory is little bit Similar to the Sankhya Philosophy Which describe the Universal existence as the mixture of two Components First One is Prakriti Which can be understood as Tangible Qwality ( Materialistic Qwality) Second One is Purush Which can be understood as Non-Tangible Qwality ( Consciousness) The Mixture of these two Components is the reason of Existence of the Universe This is Sankhya Philosophy 👍👍
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1:14:30 “relations are more basic than things“. - Hans-Peter Dürr, physicist and student of Heisenberg, said exactly the same when he talked about the main conclusions in his field of elementary physics.
@@Lascts25 agreed - I think it plays a major role in the creation of hypotheses, which Peirce calls Abductive reasoning, which has little to do with evidence but is sparked by creative intelligence which is more akin to the aesthetic impulse than anything else.
The 'profoundly important' which is so hard to address by us, needs to be brought to us. This is, I would suggest, what makes the Judaeo Christian tradition so important, and so different. Revelation is something much deeper than religion, and this history is about the 'profoundly important' becoming evident in our realm. Truth is therefore knowable.
Twice I see the unspeakable, always a pleasure even when watching the uncomfortable movement as the mind touches the realm, I suggest something's remain so far best unsaid when words fade away in explanation, like closed books the mind evolves to a collective higher connection. Show was just excellence, always a pleasure to meet.
Dear Dr mcgilchrist I love your hypothesis I love your interpretation I believe they are mostly correct I,however, am disappointed that you do not offer a prediction, a sugestion of future work or action That can help ascertain the validity of your theory, as this is a necessary component of the scientific method Thank you for great work
Bernard Lonergan in his seminal book Insight, refers to the Inverse Insight - the ability to question the question, as being the highest form of analytical thinking. As an example, Newton's work stood tall for 300 years until Einstein came along and had the audacity to question the received and long established laws of Newton ion Mechanics.
The emphasis on process & relationship in this awe-inspiring work has profound implications for the academic conundrum of knowledge transfer, particularly high-road or far transfer. There a rare, but rewarding interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge demands the curiosity, creativity & imagination of an agile, embodied mind…one “attending” to an embodied (not disembodied) world.
As for the differences between "matter" and "consciousness", I'd say that matter is how consciousness is perceived by one that is individuated from another. When individuation does not occur, there is only the seamless, though clearly more or less understood or controllable aspect of, self.
Enjoyed the 1h2m mark on hormesis, hidden assumptions, and how complex issues require nuance thinking, otherwise there are unintended consequences. Would love to hear Steven Pinker's rebuttal to Ian's point.
Wonderful!! I love Heraclitus too and so many of Ian’s points. Is it coincidence that our politics is divided into LEFT (brain) and RIGHT (brain)? I think not. Do we need “symbolic (not literal) thinking”?
Mistake is that some of us thinks that they are some kind of Gods when the truth is we are just part of the whole . Like in one of the songs of Scorpions - "We are dust in the wind ..."
"It would not matter that we continue to exist if we remain the same narrow, narcissistic, profoundly dissatisfied. greedy, atomistic individuals that we have turned ourselves recently into."
There is a reason humans have separate, individual experiences of consciousness. The internet and Twitter especially shows us why this is crucial to individual development.
I wonder what Iain would say in answer to the question of what are the necessary preconditions of intelligibility. What would have to be true about the universe to account for the phenomena we observe? How do you account for the the laws of logic, invariable moral code, uniformity in nature, universal sense of transcendence manifesting in spirituality and religions, the origin of information we see in DNA, the fine tuning of planet Earth that allows life to exist, etc.? Long periods of time and chance are not adequate to explain these things.
I'm in my mid 60's now, and despite years of atheism and skepticism, my mystical experiences eventually became too numerous to ignore. Then the doors opened.
Always been a don't know, now of 64 years & counting but due to a very short near death experience, preceded a few years earlier by what I can only describe as visions after my wife's death - Iain's work is like a growing light in what was once for me an avoided opaque corner.
Me too. Looking forward to McGilchrist’s conversation with Rupert Spira on January 30.
@@tbuczinsky do you have a link to it?
@@saransong5547 I don’t think they’ve released it yet. When they do, I’ll try to remember to post the link here.
@@tbuczinsky thank you so much! 👍
Iain McGilchrist simply blows me away every time I read his work or listen to him speak. A true master. And hats off to David for conducting the interview so brilliantly.
I am halfway through 'The Master and his Emissary' at page 410 - cannot describe how excited i am to learn that Ian's new work is finally out. What a great man, not just as an intellectual but also as a person
I am almost done with the book, in the second to last chapter. It's almost too good to speak of!
i agree, he is wonderful
I agree ❤
I love Iain McGilchrist so much. I read Master and his Emissary and suddenly the world made so much more sense to me. He is irreplaceable and I would agree, he is up there with the most famous philosophers- even above them because he explains the differing viewpoints. What a gem of a human. So brilliant.
You might also like Rosi Braidotti. Don't be put off by the titles like transhumanism, which sounds populist. Her theoretical maps are so rich with research across classical and indigenous thinkers and quantum physics as a materialist. I'm trusting my intuition here that you'll like her work. 😉
@@katejudson8907
Thank you.❤
A lot of this is very reminiscent of Michael Polanyi's concept of tacit knowledge. A decade ago I actually had an elderly poli sci professor, Maben Poirier of Concordia University, who gave an undergraduate course on Polanyi's contribution to contemporary epistemology that I just happened to sign up for on what amounted to a whim. At the time it seemed like I had embarked on an obscure, abstract journey into an antiquarian epistemological debate that only handful of people in a tiny class out of a cohort of 15,000 was studying. In time I would come to see it as far and away the best course I have ever taken and that it was a shame so few people were there to share it with us. To see the concepts we studied come back into the fore of sense-making many decades after Polanyi's era is quite nice. This is great stuff, thanks for putting it out there for us.
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Iain McGilchrist is one of the most insightful minds in public discourse to come along in a very long time. If you are reading this, Iain, may I thank you for your inspiring message. Keep up the great work.
Iain McGilchrist is just an absolute intellectual blessing - I feel so fortunate every time I hear him speak.
This is great (it’s because I’m born and raised in Japan with Zen flavoured father and Catholic mother). I’m a gardener I learn philosophy from doing gardening. To me, Philosophy is like fertiliser. You can’t plant seeds in fertiliser. It will kill the seed. Fertiliser can’t change what the seed is. And I need bit of pesticides, weeding and watering. I feel bad when I play “god” choosing to pull weeds and let the roses and peonies grow and flourish. I wish I could love weedy garden, but I know I can’t.
My dad used to say to my mom. “What a failure God is. Look at his creation how not perfect we are.” My mom understands someone like my dad believes having faults is not really faults. So she always gave a huge gentle smile to him.
My dad promised to my mom he would convert to Catholicism after his parents passed away when they got married. He is showing no sign of doing it. I’m sure my dad will do so when he is dying on his bed. That means my mom has to out live my dad😉
On an Iain McGilchrist binge at the moment so this is perfect timing. A philosopher turned neuroscientist is someone definitely worth paying attention (
AND Neuroscientist turned Philospher don't forget ;>
Primarily a psychiatrist tho
Have you also heard of the wonderful German psychiatric neuroscientist Gerard Hüther? His paper about ten years ago on how the human brain's empathic mechanics are the source of our intelligences was translated into many languages and.published in English as a short book titled The Compassionate Brain, How Empathy Creates Intelligence. Without drawing on philosophical theoretical traditions he does draw a long bow in putting human brains in the context of the rest of the living world, aka life/ nature.
This is the content that made me subscribe 2 years ago!
I'd second that!
Agreed. Thanks
I love the ending and that he didn't say: do this. That is the sign of a man who truly touched the source of wisdom
He is channeling the old man archetype. bringing watts and jung into clear view for the lost post modern soul. I love this man and love even more that you interviewed him David!!! so epic. Cheers to this!!!!
I legitimately don't know where I'd be without this channel. It's introduced me to so many incredible ideas and thinkers. If I ever get a job and move out of my parent's basement I'll donate you my first pay cheque.
If I ever get a job or when I get a job? The tongue, lad. The tongue.
I want to hear a conversation with Ian McGilchrist and Jonathan Pageau! I see not so obvious similarities in their world views
This is extremely similar to the Daoist description of reality. It’s amazing that high level neuroscience and deep meditative insights can converge in so aspects.
The worst paradox is how few people are interested in such incredibly important information.
Yes, I laughed when I saw he had 5k followers compared with a Kardashian of 300 million!
Okay, so I knew the McGilchrist was brilliant based on his last book but wow... this is on a whole different level. His new work will (and should) change the way we think.
Recently received these books - Iain is a real giant of an intellect and a deep sea of human soul.
This work will keep me busy and wondering throughout the winter months!
I am deeply thankful these kind of conversations are taking place, open sourced and cultivating during a time of the likes we are experiencing. Amazing interview! Great work Rebel Wisdom!
I hold Dr. Iian McGilchrist is close to my heart and his books and lectures and with all who have discussions with him on various subjects.
"The world is all around us." We that have this opportunity to grow and to gain more experience of depth of wisdom, one has to be in "awe."
With the deepest appreciation and love to all that participates 🌄🌠 sincerely to support these endeavors of consciousness and subconscious of our brains.
"I am the world, and the world is me." Krishnamurti with David Bohm, physicist speaking with others and then again, we have Alan Watts.
🙏❤️🌍🕊🎵🎶
Thank you and Iain for pouring a sack of diamonds here into this space. Much needed. I hope for this quality thought body to be recognized beyond all limiting believes caused by fear-traps that most humans are stuck in.
Amen. It is so beautiful to listen to Ian the way he expresses everything (and no-thing). It is the way I see it, but could not say it in the excellent way he does.
Wonderful. Feeling enriched, strangely 'less alone' and most definitely humbled. Thank you to you both.
Hi Someone once said 'I read to not feel alone'.
What an extraordinary thinker. Truly, a brilliant mind. If all of us collectively could apply just 1% of this approach to living, we would be in a much better place. Thank you Iain McGilchrist for writing such an inspirational piece of work.
I've read a few good books in my time, and The Matter with Things is the best book I have ever read. 1,001 thanks!
Cannot thank you enough for introducing me to Iain and his work through this. He is EXACTLY the articulation of what my mind had been roughly trying to sketch out for the last few years. Looking forward to going back and reading all of his books. Thank you, thank you.
You cannot take to heart what McGilchrist is saying and not come away realizing how much trouble we are in. If what he is saying is right. And I believe he is. Then all our solutions. Including to this pandemic have all been completely wrong.
good morning
Iain McGilchrist is a very wise man. It reminds me of some sort of worldly Albus Dumbledore of our time
David, what a wonderful job you did here, enabling Iain's inspiration for and explication of the important theories that gave rise to this book. I'm so impressed with this interview; thank you!
thank you Sheila
I’m my pinion This is the most important video and discussion that I have seen ever discussed which such clarity in a public space
🙏
Beautiful. God bless, Iain McGilChrist.
One feels like one is present at a great event, a great unveiling and revelation of historical dimensions, and this is made possible as much by intelligent and relevant and immediate questions from David as from the height, depth, and majestic complexity of Iaian's elaborations. I have books I won't live to read, but I will have this great work and read it early in 2022. Thank you Rebel Wisdom for your vey apt midwifery, and Dr McGilchrist, for your devotions.
(Please note: the audio jumps slightly out of sync from 30:45 to 39:09 then returns to normal)
Iain will return to our Digital Campfire for a Q&A with Rebel Wisdom members on Tues 30th November, to join, check out membership options here: rebelwisdom.co.uk/campfire-events
Some previous conversations with Iain for if you enjoyed this one:
Iain with John Vervaeke: ruclips.net/video/JdB-BMdgFbk/видео.html
Certainty & Flow: ruclips.net/video/fI1ngqwH5us/видео.html
Wow, this whole talk was really amazing. His closing lines are truly awesome.
Thanks, Iain, for being you, and being here, now.
This gentleman clearly deserves more limelight on RUclips ❤
Iain McGilchrist on S. Pinker's over-optimism: "The right hemisphere is our bullshit detector; the left hemisphere is ... full of it". (Copied to my collection of famous citations ;-).
But seriously, this interview was extraordinary valuable and enlightening. I listened to it twice and may do it again for taking notes.
Thanks Iain and David!
Top drawer stuff. Hope to see Iain more regularly! Buying those books 100%
Love McGilcheist! Thanks for having him!
Bring on more of the sense of wonder for everyone and an understanding of your brilliant and timely thesis Professor Iain Mc Gilchrist ,which will certainly give me a greater capacity to defend, what I have intuited for most of my life, should I have the good fortune to read and comprehend your two books.
Such an important work done by such a great Man.
So brilliant. As a musician this interview is music to my ears!
A beautiful mind! A master of dichotomies. 👌🏻
the best best best in some time. I will need to listen again a few times. Get the book. But hey... Thanks both if you for such expansive and often surprisingly clear conversation about hard to grasp matters.
I am a fan of Iain McGilchrist and looking forward to the new books cause the big questions are with me every day. Thanks for this interview, excellent!
Great interview David. Ian seems incredibly generous and kind. One of very few that sheds light on the many facets of complexity that surrounds us.
Ian McGilchrist is one of the greatest intellectual thinkers of our times
This man might be of extraordinary help in taking me out of my existential crisis. I'll read his work
What an extraordinarily illuminating interview. Many thanks for this.
Thank you. Fabulous.
René Guénon's 'The Reign of Quantity' is a good precursor to McGilchrist. I'm surprised he wasn't mentioned in the index of 'Master & Emissary' - maybe he'll appear in the new book...
A truly wonderful interview by David in engaging Iain in his new book. The popular documentary The Divided Brain, a collaboration with Iain, is a good backgrounder on his work.
I very much look forward to reading the new book. I just finished the Master and Emissary. Thank you gentlemen. 🙏
The worst atrocities have always been committed in the name of making things better. Not just the last couple hundred years. Always.
Absolutely brilliant conversation - thank you so much! x
Tolkien was a pro-gestaltist “He who breaks a thing to understand it has left the path of wisdom.”
Thank you for an extraordinary interview. I learnt a lot, and I will buy the book as soon as it comes out in paper back.
He is inspirational!
Outstanding.
Excellent stuff! I really like the all-encompassing perspective. Very interesting thoughts - nice to get an almost metaphysical line of thought instead of the more narrow cultural discussions. Great interview! Thanks!
Wow! Literally amazing how much must be in this book!
Ok, I ordered the damn thing!
I´m currently reading the first volume, and it is as entertaining as dense. Don´t expect to plow through it quickly. It is worth every penny, it is beyond a simple monetary investment, because no other book would explain the current state of affairs as this one . Thanks a lot Dr. McGilchrist.
¡Beautiful enterview! And the deep and complex ideas exposed by Ian MacGilchrist comunicated with clarita and elegance, made this hour and a half, a source of joy for me. ¡Thank You David for such a brilliant enterview!
More than compeled to experience (read,reflect, recognize perhaps...) the work of Ian MacGilchrist.
Such a good point about people who were outside the monetary system with no wage.
I think that Theory is little bit Similar to the Sankhya Philosophy Which describe the Universal existence as the mixture of two Components
First One is Prakriti Which can be understood as Tangible Qwality ( Materialistic Qwality)
Second One is Purush Which can be understood as Non-Tangible Qwality ( Consciousness)
The Mixture of these two Components is the reason of Existence of the Universe
This is Sankhya Philosophy 👍👍
If it is all a GIFT, then there must be a GIVER! Another G word.
What a excelent Interview. Thank you.
🇧🇷🙏🏽
Invite Dr Bernardo Kastrup.
Looking forward to this!
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This guy is a powerful force
Iain's emissary truly serves his master….
Really great interview, very insightful. Many thanks to both of you.
Absolutely brilliant, thank you.
I would love to hear a discussion with Bernardo Kastrup
1:14:30 “relations are more basic than things“. - Hans-Peter Dürr, physicist and student of Heisenberg, said exactly the same when he talked about the main conclusions in his field of elementary physics.
The missing third element is Aesthetics. Science, philosophy and Aesthetics.
I agree. I think there is a big connection between aesthetics and Intuition.
@@Lascts25 agreed - I think it plays a major role in the creation of hypotheses, which Peirce calls Abductive reasoning, which has little to do with evidence but is sparked by creative intelligence which is more akin to the aesthetic impulse than anything else.
The 'profoundly important' which is so hard to address by us, needs to be brought to us. This is, I would suggest, what makes the Judaeo Christian tradition so important, and so different. Revelation is something much deeper than religion, and this history is about the 'profoundly important' becoming evident in our realm. Truth is therefore knowable.
Twice I see the unspeakable, always a pleasure even when watching the uncomfortable movement as the mind touches the realm, I suggest something's remain so far best unsaid when words fade away in explanation, like closed books the mind evolves to a collective higher connection.
Show was just excellence, always a pleasure to meet.
Perfect thank u
Thank you.
One day I might be able to afford this book.
library
Stunning.
Fantastic ❣
Dear Dr mcgilchrist
I love your hypothesis
I love your interpretation
I believe they are mostly correct
I,however, am disappointed that you do not offer a prediction, a sugestion of future work or action
That can help ascertain the validity of your theory, as this is a necessary component of the scientific method
Thank you for great work
Bernard Lonergan in his seminal book Insight, refers to the Inverse Insight - the ability to question the question, as being the highest form of analytical thinking. As an example, Newton's work stood tall for 300 years until Einstein came along and had the audacity to question the received and long established laws of Newton ion Mechanics.
This man is an absolute beast
Wonderful talk. Looking forward to reading his books.
Thank you RW.
Now we're talking 💜🙏
The emphasis on process & relationship in this awe-inspiring work has profound implications for the academic conundrum of knowledge transfer, particularly high-road or far transfer.
There a rare, but rewarding interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge demands the curiosity, creativity & imagination of an agile, embodied mind…one “attending” to an embodied (not disembodied) world.
As for the differences between "matter" and "consciousness", I'd say that matter is how consciousness is perceived by one that is individuated from another. When individuation does not occur, there is only the seamless, though clearly more or less understood or controllable aspect of, self.
Enjoyed the 1h2m mark on hormesis, hidden assumptions, and how complex issues require nuance thinking, otherwise there are unintended consequences. Would love to hear Steven Pinker's rebuttal to Ian's point.
Thank you both. Much love.
Wonderful!! I love Heraclitus too and so many of Ian’s points. Is it coincidence that our politics is divided into LEFT (brain) and RIGHT (brain)? I think not. Do we need “symbolic (not literal) thinking”?
" Creation is also self-creation".Amen.
Mistake is that some of us thinks that they are some kind of Gods when the truth is we are just part of the whole .
Like in one of the songs of Scorpions -
"We are dust in the wind ..."
"It would not matter that we continue to exist if we remain the same narrow, narcissistic, profoundly dissatisfied. greedy, atomistic individuals that we have turned ourselves recently into."
@@midi510 You suggest that humanity "should" evolve more quickly, but perhaps evolution cannot be a "conscious" effort?
There is a reason humans have separate, individual experiences of consciousness. The internet and Twitter especially shows us why this is crucial to individual development.
Please challange steven greer and the new archetypes of ufology
I wonder what Iain would say in answer to the question of what are the necessary preconditions of intelligibility. What would have to be true about the universe to account for the phenomena we observe? How do you account for the the laws of logic, invariable moral code, uniformity in nature, universal sense of transcendence manifesting in spirituality and religions, the origin of information we see in DNA, the fine tuning of planet Earth that allows life to exist, etc.? Long periods of time and chance are not adequate to explain these things.
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