"I'm loaded on SSRI's, been diagnosed with a personality disorder, I call anyone who questions me a Nazi, my understanding on philosophy comes solely from Reddit --now let me tell you how to solve all the worlds problems."
3:12 "In fact, if anything the right hemisphere is much much more reliable than the left hemisphere and frankly the left is deluded most of the time." Confederate boys got butchered and LOST. NAZIS got butchered and LOST. Bring it on den. C'mon wid it.
@@oldmanmorgan Yup. That's pretty much how it goes with narcissistic megalomaniacs. Especially the ones who inherited wealth, popularity, and property from their family and somehow decided that since they WERE rich, what's the point in actually studying or earning experience in subjects which they could simply declare expertise in? 🙄 It's pathetic and bloody embarrassing, but that's the worldwide disease of cognitive dissonance in these Dunning-Kruger poster boys and girls.
"Audi Alteram Partem". Latin for "listen to the other side". I first heard this from a speech by a politician (Erin O'Toole, Canadian federal Conservative party leader) who realized -- after existing in the political arena for many years -- that the status quo in politics was very harmful to civilization.
My left PFC was damaged at 2 years old. Its very hard to communicate with people. Which sucks because I discovered the underlying mechanisms of cognition, maths, science, the universe, Geometric Cognition but im so overwhelmed trying to turn it into something left brain thinkers can digest.
3:12 "In fact, if anything the right hemisphere is much much more reliable than the left hemisphere and frankly the left is deluded most of the time." AMEN GOP.
It is not inappropriate to criticize experts as is said here in reference to Richard Dawkins and Dunning Kruger. . Faucci jumps to mind as well as our green energy experts our financial experts and so many more clearly need rejecting.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat You're welcome, Anime Enthusiast with Enthusiastic Anime Handle. But try to remember it not just after you've made a point, but before, even. If you've got a nice run of alliteration started, it gives the reader satisfaction to have it capped rather than to switch up that sound that you've been hitherto maintaining. If you do that, your point will even sink-in more often due to the charming effect. I'm glad that we've had this moment of reflection and I hope that with some introspection that you'll agree that my digression won't detract, divert, or distract from your point, which wasn't ignored or missed.
@@BalthasarCarduelis It's not an "anime handle", you pretentious little twitter nugget. It was literally a character & persona I created in my own series which also became well-known in the SW community over 2005-2018. "Sabercombat" used to be one of my websites where I ran events, taught classes, uploaded videos (to this channel), created training DVDs (when they were still being used), and crafted over 9000 sound effects for custom LED electronic props. 💪😎✌️ LOL, this is *not* a game of who the fuggh are you. 😂🤣😂
Ok so now I am wondering if I have got caught in the left brain trap because I am pretty closed minded about pedophilia being just plain wrong and I am not really interested in putting myself in their place and having empathy or opening up to other options for them other than prison
I'm totally with you on this one. I feel sick and angry just thinking about it. However, I think it's the act of discrimination here which is key. Just because you've tried to consider a different point of view (any point of view), it doesn't mean you have to agree with or support that view. I watched a very interesting program about men who self identified as paedophiles and who said they had never acted (and never wished to act) upon their desires. They said they loathed themselves and deliberately absented themselves from situations where they would be in unaccompanied contact with children. And whereas I respect those individuals if they were telling the truth, I am nevertheless very comfortable with entirely repudiating paedophilia.
But you're the very people who hate China & Russia for being brutal on their misfits & extremists?! No LGBTQ movement extremists or violent criminals walking free there
Righteous anger against pedos is the last fallback in a civilization that’s surrendered every other moral to relativism. But it shall fail as well. If your civilization has no transcendent grounding, anything goes (eventually).
That is not being closed minded, its having moral standards, something sorely missing for many people these days, this weaponized compassion/tolerance thing has been out of hand since the early 90's
Sat in on a friend's "human geography" lecture last week, and they were going over "Marxist geography". I can't make this up, like one week in and we're talking about the Communist Manifesto. It's still theoretically neutral, and at least one guy in the class seemed eager to criticize all the leftist positions that came up. So many people still are curious and open.
@@NorfolkScepticSuch lazy thinking on your part there. I’m good at math, but recognize there are many different semantic systems through which you can create knowledge.
@@JohnSmith-lk8cy I have come to learn this and agree. As I have said to my dysfunctional family members, "I know why I behave the way I do and I know why YOU behave the way you do... Do you know why you behave like you do?" and the answer is NO. These types are no different. The toxic patterns of behavior are learned and the only thing that varies is how their learned mentalities manifest. It's actually very basic psychology but most people are allergic to self-reflection to the point of not even being willing to accept that.
The tradition of mysticism in the Catholic Church tells us not to trust the visions that come in on the left side of the seers visual field, because it comes from the devil. The visions that come in on the right side are worth consideration and the visions that come in, in the center illuminate. Notice that the west turned to ideologies, specifically Marxist left wing ideology when the people turned away from Christianity, and when over 95 percent of the people practiced their faith in the True God, there was no ideological thinking outside of the lieing pens of an odd scholar in the academy.
I've got nothing to say on the Left brained vs right brained religious visions, as I am completely unfamiliar... But one comment I will make.... I don't think that there was ever 95% adherence to the Christian faith. Christ and the apostles themselves warned us that the path is rocky, the gate is narrow, few will be chosen, many will claim God's name and profess belief, yet Jesus said that on the day of judgement he will say, "Get away from me you evil-doers, I never knew you." We have a tendency to look back on some imagined past, When everyone was in accord, and we mostly were in alignment in a wonderful society.... Things are getting worse. I think that many of us can see that. And Dr. McG is spot on in many ways.... Love his contribution to the intellectual Commons. But be careful not to construct an idealized reality that never happened
@@neilpace well it was the case in Ireland up untill the 1980s, and further back it was also the case in other European countries. Now whether they were all sincere is another matter. Anyway, my point is that Christian thinking permeated all aspects of society to the extent that anyone following an ideology came across as closed and narrow minded.
You do know that your "True God" has a history and from the perspective of the Egyptians was the just an evil mother F***** called Seth, aka their version of the devil that predates Christianity. I don't blame them for calling a supposed deity who would commit infanticide with glee an evil god...
@mediadisme And the world is CHOCK FULL of Dunning-Kruger poster boy graduates. The sheer amount of unsubstantiated, janky, illogical, utterly moronic nonsense people have tried to purport directly to my face over my 40+ years of existence is bloody ridiculous. Sometimes, I feel like Gordon Ramsay when he points out that food is raw, a kitchen has mold, something is unseasoned, or that people are being derpy dunces. Yet... they look him straight in the eye and tell *HIM* that he's a toxic arsehole! :O It's like... WHHHAAAT?! Are you flunkin' THAT narcissistic and megalomaniacal? Come on.
I spent the afternoon yesterday asking ChatGPT questions that I thought would reveal whether it was woke. On some issues it surprisingly wasn’t. For example when asked about the horrors of communism it had a wealth of information and didn’t hold back on the details. When asked if DEI was discriminatory it dithered around, obfuscating, ignoring questions, refusing to acknowledge points made. The same sort of gaslighting we get in the real world. Where it performed the absolute worst in my opinion was in relation to that bogus claim about 230 children being buried in a mass grave at the Kamloops residential school in Canada. On a positive note it was possible to get it into a corner by asking it to supply simple yes no questions without elaboration. Kind of like the real world I suppose except that in the real world it isn’t as possible to reason people into a position they do not already hold. Would be fascination to see a proper study done into the question: Is ChatGPT woke? It is something we need to know for obvious reasons.
I have been wondering about all this crazy shit going on. You know, Im an old school, middle aged, fairly straight white man who grew up in a conservitave community. All these funny people put me off. Then I got thinking a bit. When rock and roll came around folks like me thought this is from the devil himself. But then came the beatniks, hippies etc etc. Every time things evened out again. What bussiness is it of mine anyway what little games people want to play with their own lives. I can only control my own, so I just let them be and go on with my own life. If others get in my or those close to me's face about how we live I tell them to go to hell. If they dont listen they have a fight on their hands, and I am not someone to trifle with. I dont mean hitting, but hurting others with words. Once you hurt someone, they tend to leave you alone. Problem solved.
3:12 "In fact, if anything the right hemisphere is much much more reliable than the left hemisphere and frankly the left is deluded most of the time." AMEN GOP are liars, cheaters, and thieves.
You simply cannot talk to a lot of people. They get angry or ignore you. We are surrounded by envious malevolence, impossible Equality, wars,, pestilence, disease, lies built along lies, inverted responsibility, genocide, hate. All this is protected by the stone wall of apathy, narcissism and unbelievable stupidity. I'm trying to understand it, Mcgilchrists book helped, so did the free PDF Political Ponerology.
Not only intelligent but wise as well. What a combination! Education should most definitely not be "fact" based, i.e., a memory exercise, but a pathway to understanding the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. Maybe Adams was correct, but to blindly accept 42 is a failure in education. I spent my 35-year teaching career showing my students the importance of questioning, that however benign they may be, we should always delve deeper to find truth (note, not the truth, but a truth). This made my working life more difficult because it was impossible to produce the detailed lesson plans that my school demanded. All I did in my lessons was provide a barest of facts and let the classes run with them. I could not predict the lesson outcome because that was decided by the student. They had to draw their own conclusions. Naturally, some would come to conclusions that I may not have agreed with, or which I thought were erroneous, but, over the years, I discovered that students were far more conservative than most people think. They were less prone to flights of fancy than many of my colleagues. I always rated my most successful lessons as being those where the students questioned my own input to the lesson. This can only be successfully achieved through the humanities. Other subjects will be taught that there is a right answer and a specific route to getting that answer. Taught properly, and unfortunately, much is badly taught, the humanities have one outcome, the ability to form one's own conclusions, which can be argued morally, culturally, and, of course, factually. Such a person may hold views that are different to your own, but they are more likely to remain open-minded. They can rationally argue their position, and, show a willingness to change their point of view if valid alternatives are offered. Over the years, I was successful in my goal. Significantly, my students usually did better in standardised tests than they did in other subjects. They were also often outperforming my departmental colleague's students. I often think of this as being the difference between learning and being educated. My students were educated and remained open-minded, but aware of such issues as bias and intent. They were less likely to be followers of the latest trend.
The machine observation reflects that our views are being shaped by giant machines called corporations. To corporations, we are not individuals but demographics and their perspective has been taught to the public as the "correct" one. We ideally should think like people, not like companies.
The long term question is can we actually allow the left to exist. In the 70s and 80s we truly had tolerance where we simply allowed people be who they were in their own private spheres. Everyone knew the gay couple, invited them over to dinner. We worked with various minorities with little problem. Then these minorities got the idea that they could transform society where they become the norm and the "majority" and make the existing majority into their image. We are seeing this grooming in our education systems. If we somehow managed to return to the 80s level of tolerance, they will always want to transform Civilization in to their image and the pressure will always be there to destroy "normal" society and replace it.
Teach people about the history of Eugenics. The actual day to day application of it in a historical context. The American Eugenics Movement 100% explains how the modern world is in the shape it is.
choice / options have never before been so many. it used to be easy to experiment (teen years) but now we're awash in options and it takes longer to check it all out.
Grew up Rural Forgotten America, but it was Classical Education I they called it but this was the 80s and it feels likes we were taught in two entirely different Countries. Its weird honestly seriously as a Woman this Chaos going on is annoying, dont know what to call it yet its seeping into everything. Its really disturbing we had to vet the schools also no offense we dont want that here. Families can be traced back to 1880s they came over its a group up in the town yonder is more Sweden, Valley Here its Norwegians and hop, skip, jump, the two villages is Scottish and Irish.. We dont want any BS around here, we come and help each other when theirs trouble, or sickness, or natural disaster....this chaos is horrible. Isnt it what the Seven fundamentals of what our Forefathers believed in? Isn't it more because of the Industrial Revolution that happened especially after the WW2?. We are A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC if We can Keep IT!!!!We went to far on both sides...😢
It's class warfare. A sociologist , Rob Henderson, calls it luxury beliefs. There is a reason that only privileged people fall for this or promote it because the virtue signaling is to reinforce their own power position. That is why they don't actually care about the minorities, they are just useful shields. Like how those that live in gated communities are fine with removing the police because they are still secure either way. It is always the same story, champagne socialists. Like the hippies were privileged kids because poor people have to work.
3:12 "In fact, if anything the right hemisphere is much much more reliable than the left hemisphere and frankly the left is deluded most of the time." AMEN
Too bad -you're foreclosing entire worlds of understanding. btw: there are physiological roots to transgenderism and it isn't a choice for people who have that physiology
The problem is not transgender people, they have always been around. It’s that our culture now wants to use any kind of unorthodox aspect of life to destroy our orthodoxy. I happen to be profoundly ‘unorthodox’, ie left handed, non conformist in thinking, etc, but recognize that societies need the stability of some kind of commonality. Britain especially has been a country where the non conformism has been tolerated, but this has tipped over into hatred of ‘normality’ , which amounts to self loathing.
@@stevef9530 I really wonder if you’re right. I agree it would be problematic to always and automatically question certain behaviours just because they are seen as normal. But are people really protesting marriages, heterosexuality, not being trans and so on? Some are saying that these things shouldn’t be the norm in the sense of being more valuable than other life choices or orientations etc. But that’s not the same thing as questioning what people are doing, right? As a gay man myself, I’ve always celebrated my straight friend’s relationships, marriages, kids and so on. Love it. But if someone says to me that I should get a wife and kids, that’s not okay. So I wonder if you’re not conflating two things; people doing and celebrating tradition is great, but seeing their traditions and choices as superior to others, that’s a problem. 🤷 Of course there are weirdos of both camps, hating others because of some idiotic conviction they know exactly how others should live their lives. But the existence of weirdos cannot be the basis for a diagnosis of society, right?
I came here after watching a video where he speaks about consciousness. But then the first thing I see here is prejudice. Come on ppl! Are we all sociopaths now?! Humans are disgusting!
I have a high IQ and I feel like my consciousness is primarily positioned in the right side of my brain, the left side is only useful for simple boring tasks like "draw a straight line"
People always say I exaggerate but I do believe that much of the conflict in today's society comes from the "death of the author" philosophy. In its initial form, I don't have anything against it, a body of work should be able to be understood by just looking at that body of work. However, it has been taken to extremes. When people start to reinterpret the author's work and not try to understand what they were trying to say or the characters within our doing out there feeling inset projecting their situation upon, well that's the death of empathy.
At the same time, the failure of the author to speak in the language of the audience, such that they would interpret as he intended, is also a death of empathy. You won't be around forever to tell us how to read the work, so say what you have to say, within the work, in a language that we understand.
@@BalthasarCarduelis No even if the author is clear things can be turned on their head and reinterpreted through enough lenses that it's just bending to the reader's point of view. Besides it's not like the death of the author is the law of the land. Some authors write in a way where you need more contacts to appreciate it. It boils down to are you willing to listen to somebody else? Can you conceive something different than what you already believe?
@@erickiernan1578 Even if things can be turned on their heads and reinterpreted, still the author must speak the language of his audience lest there be ONLY reinterpretation. To deny this is to have no empathy for the audience.
There are functional differences as proven when the hemispheres were surgically separated because of extreme epilepsy. But the idea it affects ideology is goofy, I agree.
People are rushed and stressed and insecure etc. And then anti social media encourages them into extrinsic drift. Like a drug dealer dealing with depression
Average Joe Bloe here: isn’t the problem that society rewards those who come up with quick, superficial answers to problems? I think I veer more “to the right” and can never take a decision - “well, it could be this, but on the other hand, it could be that”
You have to fix the humanities departments, first. There's so much anti-knowledge coming out of humanities departments, these days, the masses are rejecting it out of hand. And they should.
That doesn't make sense. Culture wars are emphasizing criticism vs empathy to understand other POV? How is one to discuss differing opinions on matters of public interest if not by comparing stats and conclusions? Everyone should be right according to him sounds like.
A coordinate system for gender might be helpful, and might take all the confusion and ugliness out of this very difficult and highly charged “woke” issue. It would then mean this is less about our individual religious beliefs, arguments that only think about biology constraints, or religious creeds, or culture wars such as being waged in politics these days which are hurting everyone, into a non-dogmatic “picture”, not just about trying to stuff a complex thing like identity into 1 category bin, the chromosomal sex you’re born as. Let it be more about allowing folk to express their identity in a more accurate and nuanced way. (Without all the darn judgemental stuff). Let us use a different mindset of the whole person, not just the chromosome allocation upon conception. So how would this work? With a co-ordinate number or symbol system then we allow a right brain gestalt grasp of the understanding of a composite issue like identity, psychological gender and sex. [xx:2:2:0] One might think of each type of multi-point identity as a different expression of phenotype of what it means to be human being. A co-ordinate system of chromosome genetic info (XX, XY and the very rare other types); then felt psycho-social identity, and then sexual choice orientation would be the third. A fourth could be medical transition. This is just a proposal… Like navigating in Space, but in gestalts…. For example, one’s chromosome sex might be XX. We might then add the gender identity, say, number #2 (female type psyche), and then sexual preference, say “1” for heterosexual intimacy choice, 2 as gay, 3 as bisexual etc.; the combination might then result in a composite pattern of type A, B and so on. It’s perfectly reasonable to be born a biological male, feel like we’re “female” in our psyche, and go on to marry a woman as it’s whom we’re sexually attracted to in a homosexual fashion, for example. It’s time we deployed our compassion to this issue, and stop being ridiculous. And I include the sort of confusing “woke” education given to kids. It helps folk understand that psychological sex identity can be different from biological chromosome type. If one has transitioned, that would be captured perhaps in the 4th coordinate. What do folk think of this idea? It allows people to just be people and not categorised as particular ideologies or dogmas. It allows for a more accurate discussions, and is more scientific. On both sides of the argument we need to be more flexible and less dogmatic about this issue. We need less right wing/left wing blanket “anti”woke arguing. We need a moral awareness that folk have differences around these identity issues - which matter more substantially to certain minority groups of people than it might do for folk without those Identity Phenotypes. I’m very aware this issue tends to revolve around bathroom facilities and changing facilities and so on. I’m also aware it’s not a simple problem. I struggle to understand how linking one’s gender and sex identity to a political ideology based on “anti-wokeism”, is rational especially given the composite, complex, adaptive nature of human beings sense of who and what they “are” is concerned. Using a coordinate system to identify phenotypical expressions in creatures with consciousness and done free will seems like a no-brainer to me. Assessing the risk associated with allowing XY chromosomes in XX changing rooms has been dealt with in countries where one can change in an all sexes room or a separate sex room, or by extending the use of disability facilities, given the tiny % of folk who are alternative phenotypes to the more common two types.
*Anyone got a summary of his argument? I'd appreciate it!* First thing I'm hearing he's criticising white, middle-class people talking on behalf of trans people. This is vague. Then right hemisphere, ì * left hemisphere: given to schemas .....
I find a lot of what Dr McGilchrist says interesting and informative, but can’t quite get on board with his remarks about the importance of the humanities. It seems to me that if there is a locus for the postmodernist, woke disaster it’s in precisely this area. Where are relativism and nihilism rampant if not in psychology, peace and gender studies, and the humanities generally?
I’ve long had this feeling that the 20th century was a time that God turned the world over to the devil. Now in the 21st, we’re living in the aftermath.
Yes, but the point is the way they manifest themselves, particularly autogyniphiles who form the preponderance of the illegitimate but radical gender movement. Money and co have a lot to answer for!
Dr. McGilchrist has not had 9 credit hours of calculus apparently. That teaches you how to think about things. You know shooting a cannon out of a train leaving Chicago into the window of a car traveling to Denver while breaking...
Why are you talking about left hemisphere and right hemisphere as allegories for the political leanings? Is this meant to plant some sort of bias/seed on the audience? I can only hear the right is right, the left is delusional. If it only applies to the brain I'll be ok and interested but, the interviewer laid the "left wing" tight thoughts on his English literature uni circles. Have you crafted this interview to be understood as I did?
I love everytime when an ordinary person from crowd, questions in such depth, that's exactly the purpose of education. hats off, your education was worth. thnx
Why is it that for someone that anti trans videos keep appearing on my feed, but never any pro trans? I consider myself outside of this debate, but I only see one side pushing an agenda here. In my humble opinion, pushing the trans angle repeatedly undermines the guests speaking and some potentially interesting topics.
This is the most confusing discussion I've ever witnessed. Up is down and down is up. They aren't speaking English. I can't begin to critique it because I don't know what they are talking about.
"I'm loaded on SSRI's, been diagnosed with a personality disorder, I call anyone who questions me a Nazi, my understanding on philosophy comes solely from Reddit --now let me tell you how to solve all the worlds problems."
3:12 "In fact, if anything the right hemisphere is much much more reliable than the left hemisphere and frankly the left is deluded most of the time."
Confederate boys got butchered and LOST. NAZIS got butchered and LOST. Bring it on den. C'mon wid it.
@@oldmanmorgan Yup. That's pretty much how it goes with narcissistic megalomaniacs. Especially the ones who inherited wealth, popularity, and property from their family and somehow decided that since they WERE rich, what's the point in actually studying or earning experience in subjects which they could simply declare expertise in? 🙄 It's pathetic and bloody embarrassing, but that's the worldwide disease of cognitive dissonance in these Dunning-Kruger poster boys and girls.
"Audi Alteram Partem". Latin for "listen to the other side". I first heard this from a speech by a politician (Erin O'Toole, Canadian federal Conservative party leader) who realized -- after existing in the political arena for many years -- that the status quo in politics was very harmful to civilization.
To quote Adam Smith, "beware the man of system".
My left PFC was damaged at 2 years old. Its very hard to communicate with people. Which sucks because I discovered the underlying mechanisms of cognition, maths, science, the universe, Geometric Cognition but im so overwhelmed trying to turn it into something left brain thinkers can digest.
Well, we still need people like you.
Keep trying. That's valuable stuff. You have an obvious gift. Share the wealth.
Thanks you two, I appreciate the good vibes 😊 I got this 💪🤓
@@6AxisSageYeah!! Keep at it! You've got this! ❤
3:12 "In fact, if anything the right hemisphere is much much more reliable than the left hemisphere and frankly the left is deluded most of the time." AMEN GOP.
In these chaotic times Dr Gilchrist is unfortunately too wise reasonable and polite to be listened to with fervour :/
Ironically he is advocating for chaos over order.
I listen with fervor!
I was definitely fervouring
Jung said "certainty has a price, its either paid in the past or the future"
Well we are past and now is future ,
It is not inappropriate to criticize experts as is said here in reference to Richard Dawkins and Dunning Kruger. .
Faucci jumps to mind as well as our green energy experts our financial experts and so many more clearly need rejecting.
Narcissistic megalomaniacs with coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, control, corporate communities, and opulent opportunities, yes. 🙄 It's embarrassing, too. Reflection is absent, intelligence is minimal, and introspection is--to quote Monty Python--"RIGHT out".
You should have said corpulence instead of opulence.
@@BalthasarCarduelis Uh... thanks Balthasar. I'll try to remember that the next time my actual point is purposely ignored (or missed by miles).
@@Novastar.SaberCombat You're welcome, Anime Enthusiast with Enthusiastic Anime Handle. But try to remember it not just after you've made a point, but before, even. If you've got a nice run of alliteration started, it gives the reader satisfaction to have it capped rather than to switch up that sound that you've been hitherto maintaining. If you do that, your point will even sink-in more often due to the charming effect. I'm glad that we've had this moment of reflection and I hope that with some introspection that you'll agree that my digression won't detract, divert, or distract from your point, which wasn't ignored or missed.
@@BalthasarCarduelis It's not an "anime handle", you pretentious little twitter nugget. It was literally a character & persona I created in my own series which also became well-known in the SW community over 2005-2018. "Sabercombat" used to be one of my websites where I ran events, taught classes, uploaded videos (to this channel), created training DVDs (when they were still being used), and crafted over 9000 sound effects for custom LED electronic props. 💪😎✌️
LOL, this is *not* a game of who the fuggh are you. 😂🤣😂
@@Novastar.SaberCombat There is nothing wrong with your comment.
Ok so now I am wondering if I have got caught in the left brain trap because I am pretty closed minded about pedophilia being just plain wrong and I am not really interested in putting myself in their place and having empathy or opening up to other options for them other than prison
That doesn't make you closed minded, that makes you sane. No one should be defending pedophiles.
I'm totally with you on this one. I feel sick and angry just thinking about it. However, I think it's the act of discrimination here which is key. Just because you've tried to consider a different point of view (any point of view), it doesn't mean you have to agree with or support that view. I watched a very interesting program about men who self identified as paedophiles and who said they had never acted (and never wished to act) upon their desires. They said they loathed themselves and deliberately absented themselves from situations where they would be in unaccompanied contact with children. And whereas I respect those individuals if they were telling the truth, I am nevertheless very comfortable with entirely repudiating paedophilia.
But you're the very people who hate China & Russia for being brutal on their misfits & extremists?! No LGBTQ movement extremists or violent criminals walking free there
Righteous anger against pedos is the last fallback in a civilization that’s surrendered every other moral to relativism. But it shall fail as well. If your civilization has no transcendent grounding, anything goes (eventually).
That is not being closed minded, its having moral standards, something sorely missing for many people these days, this weaponized compassion/tolerance thing has been out of hand since the early 90's
Do the Humanities really teach people how to think and evaluate any more? Ideological capture seems the norm.
Sat in on a friend's "human geography" lecture last week, and they were going over "Marxist geography". I can't make this up, like one week in and we're talking about the Communist Manifesto.
It's still theoretically neutral, and at least one guy in the class seemed eager to criticize all the leftist positions that came up. So many people still are curious and open.
Humanities is what you study, if you can't do Mathematics. :)
@@NorfolkScepticI think maths is very useful in the Humanities.
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But very few are proficient at it.
@@NorfolkScepticSuch lazy thinking on your part there. I’m good at math, but recognize there are many different semantic systems through which you can create knowledge.
Assuming Dr. McGilchrist is correct, I wonder if he has any theories on what may be damaging all of these people's right hemispheres?
I know the mainstream says these individuals are made, I believe there is a genetic component
Microplastics and pesticides 😅
Listening to other people with this self induced injury.
Childhood trauma, That causes ALL the issues on this planet. Look up Alice Millar.
@@JohnSmith-lk8cy I have come to learn this and agree. As I have said to my dysfunctional family members, "I know why I behave the way I do and I know why YOU behave the way you do... Do you know why you behave like you do?" and the answer is NO. These types are no different. The toxic patterns of behavior are learned and the only thing that varies is how their learned mentalities manifest. It's actually very basic psychology but most people are allergic to self-reflection to the point of not even being willing to accept that.
Wonderful conversation
The tradition of mysticism in the Catholic Church tells us not to trust the visions that come in on the left side of the seers visual field, because it comes from the devil. The visions that come in on the right side are worth consideration and the visions that come in, in the center illuminate.
Notice that the west turned to ideologies, specifically Marxist left wing ideology when the people turned away from Christianity, and when over 95 percent of the people practiced their faith in the True God, there was no ideological thinking outside of the lieing pens of an odd scholar in the academy.
I've got nothing to say on the Left brained vs right brained religious visions, as I am completely unfamiliar... But one comment I will make....
I don't think that there was ever 95% adherence to the Christian faith. Christ and the apostles themselves warned us that the path is rocky, the gate is narrow, few will be chosen, many will claim God's name and profess belief, yet Jesus said that on the day of judgement he will say, "Get away from me you evil-doers, I never knew you."
We have a tendency to look back on some imagined past, When everyone was in accord, and we mostly were in alignment in a wonderful society....
Things are getting worse. I think that many of us can see that. And Dr. McG is spot on in many ways.... Love his contribution to the intellectual Commons. But be careful not to construct an idealized reality that never happened
@@neilpace well it was the case in Ireland up untill the 1980s, and further back it was also the case in other European countries. Now whether they were all sincere is another matter. Anyway, my point is that Christian thinking permeated all aspects of society to the extent that anyone following an ideology came across as closed and narrow minded.
@@outoforbit00 fair enough...
Cheers mate
You do know that your "True God" has a history and from the perspective of the Egyptians was the just an evil mother F***** called Seth, aka their version of the devil that predates Christianity. I don't blame them for calling a supposed deity who would commit infanticide with glee an evil god...
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Good old Dunning-kruger effect! The more i learn, the less i know.
The more you learn the larger your awareness. Of how much you still don't understand expands.
Watch out for people without doubts. Doubts are an honest psychological reaction to an imperfect reality perpetually in Flux.
@mediadisme And the world is CHOCK FULL of Dunning-Kruger poster boy graduates. The sheer amount of unsubstantiated, janky, illogical, utterly moronic nonsense people have tried to purport directly to my face over my 40+ years of existence is bloody ridiculous. Sometimes, I feel like Gordon Ramsay when he points out that food is raw, a kitchen has mold, something is unseasoned, or that people are being derpy dunces. Yet... they look him straight in the eye and tell *HIM* that he's a toxic arsehole! :O It's like... WHHHAAAT?! Are you flunkin' THAT narcissistic and megalomaniacal? Come on.
Thank you very much...
I spent the afternoon yesterday asking ChatGPT questions that I thought would reveal whether it was woke. On some issues it surprisingly wasn’t. For example when asked about the horrors of communism it had a wealth of information and didn’t hold back on the details.
When asked if DEI was discriminatory it dithered around, obfuscating, ignoring questions, refusing to acknowledge points made. The same sort of gaslighting we get in the real world.
Where it performed the absolute worst in my opinion was in relation to that bogus claim about 230 children being buried in a mass grave at the Kamloops residential school in Canada.
On a positive note it was possible to get it into a corner by asking it to supply simple yes no questions without elaboration.
Kind of like the real world I suppose except that in the real world it isn’t as possible to reason people into a position they do not already hold.
Would be fascination to see a proper study done into the question: Is ChatGPT woke?
It is something we need to know for obvious reasons.
It tells you what it algorithmically thinks you want to hear. Try to catch it in lies and you will.
It will ADMIT to you that it lies. Delete it.
@@Stuvoodoo It tells you what it algorithmically thinks you want to hear. Try to catch this guys lies and you will.
@@Stuvoodoo It will ADMIT to this guys that he lies. Delete it.
@@Geo-Global-oz5kl You're not as cheeky as you think 😉
They avoid working with their own qualities. Bullhorn personas.
I have been wondering about all this crazy shit going on. You know, Im an old school, middle aged, fairly straight white man who grew up in a conservitave community. All these funny people put me off.
Then I got thinking a bit. When rock and roll came around folks like me thought this is from the devil himself. But then came the beatniks, hippies etc etc. Every time things evened out again.
What bussiness is it of mine anyway what little games people want to play with their own lives. I can only control my own, so I just let them be and go on with my own life.
If others get in my or those close to me's face about how we live I tell them to go to hell. If they dont listen they have a fight on their hands, and I am not someone to trifle with. I dont mean hitting, but hurting others with words. Once you hurt someone, they tend to leave you alone. Problem solved.
What games though?
3:12 "In fact, if anything the right hemisphere is much much more reliable than the left hemisphere and frankly the left is deluded most of the time."
AMEN GOP are liars, cheaters, and thieves.
You simply cannot talk to a lot of people. They get angry or ignore you. We are surrounded by envious malevolence, impossible Equality, wars,, pestilence, disease, lies built along lies, inverted responsibility, genocide, hate. All this is protected by the stone wall of apathy, narcissism and unbelievable stupidity. I'm trying to understand it, Mcgilchrists book helped, so did the free PDF Political Ponerology.
Not only intelligent but wise as well. What a combination!
Education should most definitely not be "fact" based, i.e., a memory exercise, but a pathway to understanding the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. Maybe Adams was correct, but to blindly accept 42 is a failure in education.
I spent my 35-year teaching career showing my students the importance of questioning, that however benign they may be, we should always delve deeper to find truth (note, not the truth, but a truth). This made my working life more difficult because it was impossible to produce the detailed lesson plans that my school demanded. All I did in my lessons was provide a barest of facts and let the classes run with them. I could not predict the lesson outcome because that was decided by the student. They had to draw their own conclusions. Naturally, some would come to conclusions that I may not have agreed with, or which I thought were erroneous, but, over the years, I discovered that students were far more conservative than most people think. They were less prone to flights of fancy than many of my colleagues. I always rated my most successful lessons as being those where the students questioned my own input to the lesson. This can only be successfully achieved through the humanities. Other subjects will be taught that there is a right answer and a specific route to getting that answer. Taught properly, and unfortunately, much is badly taught, the humanities have one outcome, the ability to form one's own conclusions, which can be argued morally, culturally, and, of course, factually.
Such a person may hold views that are different to your own, but they are more likely to remain open-minded. They can rationally argue their position, and, show a willingness to change their point of view if valid alternatives are offered.
Over the years, I was successful in my goal. Significantly, my students usually did better in standardised tests than they did in other subjects. They were also often outperforming my departmental colleague's students. I often think of this as being the difference between learning and being educated. My students were educated and remained open-minded, but aware of such issues as bias and intent. They were less likely to be followers of the latest trend.
The machine observation reflects that our views are being shaped by giant machines called corporations. To corporations, we are not individuals but demographics and their perspective has been taught to the public as the "correct" one. We ideally should think like people, not like companies.
The question is how to counter the left?
The long term question is can we actually allow the left to exist. In the 70s and 80s we truly had tolerance where we simply allowed people be who they were in their own private spheres. Everyone knew the gay couple, invited them over to dinner. We worked with various minorities with little problem. Then these minorities got the idea that they could transform society where they become the norm and the "majority" and make the existing majority into their image. We are seeing this grooming in our education systems.
If we somehow managed to return to the 80s level of tolerance, they will always want to transform Civilization in to their image and the pressure will always be there to destroy "normal" society and replace it.
Teach people about the history of Eugenics. The actual day to day application of it in a historical context. The American Eugenics Movement 100% explains how the modern world is in the shape it is.
What you don't want people to have different opinions to you?
choice / options have never before been so many. it used to be easy to experiment (teen years) but now we're awash in options and it takes longer to check it all out.
Grew up Rural Forgotten America, but it was Classical Education I they called it but this was the 80s and it feels likes we were taught in two entirely different Countries. Its weird honestly seriously as a Woman this Chaos going on is annoying, dont know what to call it yet its seeping into everything. Its really disturbing we had to vet the schools also no offense we dont want that here. Families can be traced back to 1880s they came over its a group up in the town yonder is more Sweden, Valley Here its Norwegians and hop, skip, jump, the two villages is Scottish and Irish.. We dont want any BS around here, we come and help each other when theirs trouble, or sickness, or natural disaster....this chaos is horrible.
Isnt it what the Seven fundamentals of what our Forefathers believed in? Isn't it more because of the Industrial Revolution that happened especially after the WW2?. We are A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC if We can Keep IT!!!!We went to far on both sides...😢
It's class warfare. A sociologist , Rob Henderson, calls it luxury beliefs. There is a reason that only privileged people fall for this or promote it because the virtue signaling is to reinforce their own power position. That is why they don't actually care about the minorities, they are just useful shields. Like how those that live in gated communities are fine with removing the police because they are still secure either way. It is always the same story, champagne socialists. Like the hippies were privileged kids because poor people have to work.
3:12 "In fact, if anything the right hemisphere is much much more reliable than the left hemisphere and frankly the left is deluded most of the time." AMEN
I can't get on board with the idea that "transgender is real" and not delusion.
Most stuff people engage in is delusional. So is there such a sharp difference as you are implying?
Too bad -you're foreclosing entire worlds of understanding. btw: there are physiological roots to transgenderism and it isn't a choice for people who have that physiology
The problem is not transgender people, they have always been around. It’s that our culture now wants to use any kind of unorthodox aspect of life to destroy our orthodoxy. I happen to be profoundly ‘unorthodox’, ie left handed, non conformist in thinking, etc, but recognize that societies need the stability of some kind of commonality. Britain especially has been a country where the non conformism has been tolerated, but this has tipped over into hatred of ‘normality’ , which amounts to self loathing.
@@stevef9530 I really wonder if you’re right. I agree it would be problematic to always and automatically question certain behaviours just because they are seen as normal. But are people really protesting marriages, heterosexuality, not being trans and so on? Some are saying that these things shouldn’t be the norm in the sense of being more valuable than other life choices or orientations etc. But that’s not the same thing as questioning what people are doing, right? As a gay man myself, I’ve always celebrated my straight friend’s relationships, marriages, kids and so on. Love it. But if someone says to me that I should get a wife and kids, that’s not okay. So I wonder if you’re not conflating two things; people doing and celebrating tradition is great, but seeing their traditions and choices as superior to others, that’s a problem. 🤷 Of course there are weirdos of both camps, hating others because of some idiotic conviction they know exactly how others should live their lives. But the existence of weirdos cannot be the basis for a diagnosis of society, right?
Delusion
Kids are going to be brushing their teeth in the toilet and peeing in the sink!!! 😱
I came here after watching a video where he speaks about consciousness. But then the first thing I see here is prejudice. Come on ppl! Are we all sociopaths now?! Humans are disgusting!
I have a high IQ and I feel like my consciousness is primarily positioned in the right side of my brain, the left side is only useful for simple boring tasks like "draw a straight line"
"Trolley-dash around the internet" - brilliant 🎉 thanks, great points, great & reflective thinker. Good work @Andrew Gold
Great interview.
Sorry for the hammering in the background at 3:00. I really needed to get that sink in - Elon.
It was sinkopation
Right-hemisphere work needs to continue while left-hemisphere chat goes on.
People always say I exaggerate but I do believe that much of the conflict in today's society comes from the "death of the author" philosophy. In its initial form, I don't have anything against it, a body of work should be able to be understood by just looking at that body of work. However, it has been taken to extremes. When people start to reinterpret the author's work and not try to understand what they were trying to say or the characters within our doing out there feeling inset projecting their situation upon, well that's the death of empathy.
At the same time, the failure of the author to speak in the language of the audience, such that they would interpret as he intended, is also a death of empathy. You won't be around forever to tell us how to read the work, so say what you have to say, within the work, in a language that we understand.
@@BalthasarCarduelis No even if the author is clear things can be turned on their head and reinterpreted through enough lenses that it's just bending to the reader's point of view. Besides it's not like the death of the author is the law of the land. Some authors write in a way where you need more contacts to appreciate it. It boils down to are you willing to listen to somebody else? Can you conceive something different than what you already believe?
@@erickiernan1578 Even if things can be turned on their heads and reinterpreted, still the author must speak the language of his audience lest there be ONLY reinterpretation. To deny this is to have no empathy for the audience.
the subdivision of function berween the hemispheres that Ian bases his hypotesis on is nothing but a myth.
There are functional differences as proven when the hemispheres were surgically separated because of extreme epilepsy. But the idea it affects ideology is goofy, I agree.
@@Nylon_riot yes but that is a very pathological state that cannot be used for a healthy whole brain.
The last great Oxford Don. He reminds me so much of CS Lewis.
Switch the internet and the phones off. It’s not rocket science, it’s that simple.
People are rushed and stressed and insecure etc. And then anti social media encourages them into extrinsic drift. Like a drug dealer dealing with depression
Kindness 😊🎉
The criminal liar goes to prison. Blue trifecta. SEE YA FOR GOOD
Average Joe Bloe here: isn’t the problem that society rewards those who come up with quick, superficial answers to problems? I think I veer more “to the right” and can never take a decision - “well, it could be this, but on the other hand, it could be that”
You have to fix the humanities departments, first. There's so much anti-knowledge coming out of humanities departments, these days, the masses are rejecting it out of hand. And they should.
The patronising middle class ..
I thought he knew better than this. He's not the ticket this guy
I would like to hear Dr. McGilchrist's views on Neuralink, not so sure he would comment favourably.
That doesn't make sense. Culture wars are emphasizing criticism vs empathy to understand other POV? How is one to discuss differing opinions on matters of public interest if not by comparing stats and conclusions? Everyone should be right according to him sounds like.
Would Oxford or Cambridge university 🤔
Have a planned way to accommodate Furies ? 😊
A coordinate system for gender might be helpful, and might take all the confusion and ugliness out of this very difficult and highly charged “woke” issue.
It would then mean this is less about our individual religious beliefs, arguments that only think about biology constraints, or religious creeds, or culture wars such as being waged in politics these days which are hurting everyone, into a non-dogmatic “picture”, not just about trying to stuff a complex thing like identity into 1 category bin, the chromosomal sex you’re born as.
Let it be more about allowing folk to express their identity in a more accurate and nuanced way. (Without all the darn judgemental stuff). Let us use a different mindset of the whole person, not just the chromosome allocation upon conception.
So how would this work?
With a co-ordinate number or symbol system then we allow a right brain gestalt grasp of the understanding of a composite issue like identity, psychological gender and sex. [xx:2:2:0]
One might think of each type of multi-point identity as a different expression of phenotype of what it means to be human being.
A co-ordinate system of chromosome genetic info (XX, XY and the very rare other types); then felt psycho-social identity, and then sexual choice orientation would be the third. A fourth could be medical transition.
This is just a proposal…
Like navigating in Space, but in gestalts….
For example, one’s chromosome sex might be XX. We might then add the gender identity, say, number #2 (female type psyche), and then sexual preference, say “1” for heterosexual intimacy choice, 2 as gay, 3 as bisexual etc.; the combination might then result in a composite pattern of type A, B and so on.
It’s perfectly reasonable to be born a biological male, feel like we’re “female” in our psyche, and go on to marry a woman as it’s whom we’re sexually attracted to in a homosexual fashion, for example.
It’s time we deployed our compassion to this issue, and stop being ridiculous. And I include the sort of confusing “woke” education given to kids. It helps folk understand that psychological sex identity can be different from biological chromosome type. If one has transitioned, that would be captured perhaps in the 4th coordinate.
What do folk think of this idea? It allows people to just be people and not categorised as particular ideologies or dogmas. It allows for a more accurate discussions, and is more scientific.
On both sides of the argument we need to be more flexible and less dogmatic about this issue.
We need less right wing/left wing blanket “anti”woke arguing. We need a moral awareness that folk have differences around these identity issues - which matter more substantially to certain minority groups of people than it might do for folk without those Identity Phenotypes. I’m very aware this issue tends to revolve around bathroom facilities and changing facilities and so on. I’m also aware it’s not a simple problem.
I struggle to understand how linking one’s gender and sex identity to a political ideology based on “anti-wokeism”, is rational especially given the composite, complex, adaptive nature of human beings sense of who and what they “are” is concerned.
Using a coordinate system to identify phenotypical expressions in creatures with consciousness and done free will seems like a no-brainer to me. Assessing the risk associated with allowing XY chromosomes in XX changing rooms has been dealt with in countries where one can change in an all sexes room or a separate sex room, or by extending the use of disability facilities, given the tiny % of folk who are alternative phenotypes to the more common two types.
*Anyone got a summary of his argument? I'd appreciate it!*
First thing I'm hearing he's criticising white, middle-class people talking on behalf of trans people. This is vague. Then right hemisphere, ì
* left hemisphere: given to schemas .....
God forbid that capitalism could have anything to do with any sorts of decline
14:13 I'm reminded of Principal Skinner saying, "Am I really so out of touch? No. No, it's the children who are wrong." 😂
Yeah...the ones they're fighting against.
I find a lot of what Dr McGilchrist says interesting and informative, but can’t quite get on board with his remarks about the importance of the humanities. It seems to me that if there is a locus for the postmodernist, woke disaster it’s in precisely this area. Where are relativism and nihilism rampant if not in psychology, peace and gender studies, and the humanities generally?
True.
Is that a velvet jacket?
@16:18 he says robots or zombies, i would say also NPCs
I’ve long had this feeling that the 20th century was a time that God turned the world over to the devil. Now in the 21st, we’re living in the aftermath.
Does he understand that trans people have physiological and hormonol differences?.
Its not that complex
Yes, but the point is the way they manifest themselves, particularly autogyniphiles who form the preponderance of the illegitimate but radical gender movement. Money and co have a lot to answer for!
Dr. McGilchrist has not had 9 credit hours of calculus apparently. That teaches you how to think about things. You know shooting a cannon out of a train leaving Chicago into the window of a car traveling to Denver while breaking...
Why are you talking about left hemisphere and right hemisphere as allegories for the political leanings? Is this meant to plant some sort of bias/seed on the audience? I can only hear the right is right, the left is delusional. If it only applies to the brain I'll be ok and interested but, the interviewer laid the "left wing" tight thoughts on his English literature uni circles. Have you crafted this interview to be understood as I did?
I love everytime when an ordinary person from crowd, questions in such depth, that's exactly the purpose of education. hats off, your education was worth. thnx
Yes, it is. On both sides
Why is it that for someone that anti trans videos keep appearing on my feed, but never any pro trans?
I consider myself outside of this debate, but I only see one side pushing an agenda here.
In my humble opinion, pushing the trans angle repeatedly undermines the guests speaking and some potentially interesting topics.
Women
This is the most confusing discussion I've ever witnessed. Up is down and down is up. They aren't speaking English. I can't begin to critique it because I don't know what they are talking about.
This guy shouldn't have a platform st all
First they came for …..
and I said nothing .
If a person can only entertain one political point of view then they are not enlightened, I don't care who they are.
But if we are Saving the Planet .... .... :)
@@NorfolkSceptic hmmm...yes...I didn't consider that...more left brain for me then
@@NorfolkScepticno we aren't, that's the problem
💯 Moronic slogans such as “two tier Keir” 🫠🥴