Dismissed Religion? The Blindness of the Left Hemisphere
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2020
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Our discussion moves on towards religion and in this clip, Dr McGilchrist explains how the brain's left hemisphere views religion.
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♥️ this! So clear and non-judgemental. Thanks for taking the time and effort to post this!
Thanks for your hard work 🙏
Doesn’t this depends on your understanding of the divine. Overarching or underpinning, great ruler or servant of all?
Equality with God is not something to be grasped. Philippians 2.
Satan said "I will ascend" but as Saint Sophrony Sakharov said, "The path of Christ first leads downward."
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What appears to be dogmatic is not just blind faith but actually speaks to the people’s hearT so why the bias against left brain if there must be truth as well.
The Question is :
Is there are Truth ?
No ? This life is over. Because if there is no anything to.
Yes ?
Where is the truth ?
Those fundamental questions are quite interesting but probably more easily apprehended using mathematics and logic for example: "Is there such a concept as Truth"? is a useful starter question before any mention of anything else: To know what you know - is that possible?
In a given context or frame of reference, mathematics grows as a body of knowledge from axioms and then retains coherence in all subsequent definitions and derivations sustaining the original link to the starting position. Using such a body of knowledge clearly humans have expanded knowledge of the universe around us so in some sense there's a relationship to external truth that has grown over time even if our brains probably can't comprehend certain concepts such as paradoxes eg 0 = (0) = 1 == { (0), 1 } == 2 == { 0,1,2 } == 3...
Perhaps another approach for humans is an internal one, with respect to our experience mentally and in relation to a n external world and the effect and relationship between the two? In this approach, there seems a lot less codified knowledge as per subject domain knowledge growth of a physical basis. However there does appear to be some progress in this direction too eg Buddhist Meditation and other concepts of perception.
Linking the two it's possible Wolfram's conclusion that there's a dynamic between a system and it's entropy and what the observer is doing with respect to being in that system and integral to it, also; is somewhere at the heart of the matter of such questions as truth, as conceived by a human mind.
A related question not of religion but sci-fi or science is what would alien minds think like? At least a good approximation of that is indeed animal minds on our own planet and understanding their experience would be a good way to approach that question. Equally "AI" is incipient in present times and it will be interesting to see how that develops and how different it is to humans.
Where is truth? It might be too far away but the journey nearer draws us closer.