How the brain works - Iain McGilchrist in conversation with Jack Light
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Jack Light is a third-year Honours student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, studying International Relations and Russian. He is part of the Roosevelt Group, a student-led publication and think tank based at the University. The Roosevelt Group's aim is to attempt to emulate Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt's ability to unite people with various backgrounds and passions through their commitment to community and productivity. You can find out more here www.roosevelt-group.org
To find out more about the work of Dr Iain McGilchrist, follow this link channelmcgilchrist.com/home/
To order McGilchrist's latest book, The Matter with Things go to www.bookdepository.com/Matter... or www.amazon.com/Book-978191456...
Hey Ian! Please know that the audio version of The Matter With Things will be really valued by me and perhaps others. I had a left hemisphere stroke 4 yrs ago (at 58) and am unable to sustain any attention to the written word when I read lengthy passages. I simply fade to black! I can’t retain a thing. I listened to The Master and His Emicary and was astonished at my ability to absorb the material. My 1:04:40 right hemisphere is totally engaged. I’ve been listening to your podcast interviews till the book comes out in audio. I adore and value these books and now life feels quite different and quite fascinating. Sure am glad I found your work! Thank you!!!
I really wish this video can be seen by millions, its such a concise, profound, truly deep and critically important message.
Ian made me laugh at 1:02:40 when he laughs about wanting to write a shorter book! Chance will be a fine thing, me thinks! ;) I love what he has to say, always. So much on my own page in how he views this strange world of ours or rather the odd things happening in it and to it. I walk in my little garden each day. If I had half a chance, I'd be up there in the outer Hebrides as far away from the madding crowd as possible, photographing birds probably. Thanks for this lovely conversation. I wish Iain was my neighbor...what fun to have a philosopher to discuss Life with! :)
darwin....nietzsche....macgilchrist....my essential teachers.....thanks ian....without your work there's an endless circle jerk of metaphysics....the human mind....is divided....two minds....so beautiful....thanks ian
Thanks for asking about the audiobook. I really hope he completes it! His voice is gold and the content is amazing. An audiobook would make his book more accessible
„The myth for today is wholeness rather than perfection. Our new challenge is about the integration of warring elements, and not one archetype defeating another“ David Tracey (How to read Jung)
Would love to hear the audio book !
What i hear is that we see the world in 3 ways: 1) meaningful, 2) meaningless, and 3) a synthesis of the 2 persectives that is uniquely harmonized to serve us best in the present moment. The whole is different that its parts, but it is also its parts, and is greater than the sum of its parts.
My understanding is that in the beginning we knew and were nothing 0
Upon the realization that we existed as a singularity consciousness 1 in this universe of nothingness we started vibrating 100111000 you do recognize the binary system with which our consciousness creates everything we hear decibels
See angstroms and
Think consciousness
Vibrating energy is all that has ever existed- and we are creating the universe with it,
@@agodfortheatheistnow Sounds like Tesla. This resonates with me.
The west is up its own anus?
@@agodfortheatheistnow The paint doesn’t produce the painting.
@@finnmacdiarmid3250 the paint and the painting are both just tools of the painter (the singularity consciousness (1) in the universe of nothingness (0) vibrating 110010100 is the painter.
Interest analogy tho
The Paint and painting are nothing without the painter you forgot all about.
We use ( suspension of disbelief) to make a fictional story a more enjoyable experience. The physical Life is that fiction. Subatomic electromagnetic energy forces are not a physical reality. We just think it is.
Beautiful.
I realize now how badly I need to read your book! ❤
Try his first Magnum Opus- it’s half the size and 20% the price of his new 1300 page second Magnum Opus!
This is all very interesting and I thank Dr. McGilchrist for putting all this in front of us. I have many thoughts, but the one I choose to share is that marketing culture is the result of the predominancy of left hemisphere. If the point, the goal is to SELL THINGS, the only way forward is by taking advantage of more and more addictive impulsive single-minded and primitive tendencies of the brain. Every day things get nicer, but less and less meaningful to the point of alienation. There can be a lot of progress in the left side area, but that makes it exponentialy difficult to get progress on the other side, because "the hole picture" has got full of useless needs and impulses.
Contemplative Life: A Praise to I dleness, Byung-Chul Han
Bless Jordan Peterson for leading me to Iain's work!
Divided or duplicated?
After all many other systems are duplicated, based on the primary plan of left right duplication and caudal rostral divisions of head/neck, thorax and abdomen and duplications as in vertebrae.
The asymmetry may be an add on
Indeed the left hemisphere seems to tend to make much more noise than the right...
Btw smiling makes you notice the beautiful things more.
You'll see it when you believe it.
What a joy it is to enjoy minimalism as well as intricacy.
Education < educare = "to keep leading away from", but from whát exactly?...
A name for the cosmos i heard: "Izzy" ; most apt and minimalistic name, in English, for "What Is"
(33:48 : young padawan, i'm sure you didn't mean that the right hemisphere doesn't have its intelligence? )
Iain, i hope you get to enjoy the (anticipated) silence; much to be heard/found there.
🙏🏽🙏🏽🌳🕊💚
More important than how the brain works , is the connection between our consciousness the quantum nature of our existence.
It is all the same.
@@nevynnowhere6322 it’s not the same in any wAy. … the brain is considered a physical object (it is not) consciousness and quantum are not physical- we just think they are
In order to make our BORED LONELY existence as a singularity consciousness in a universe of nothingness a more enjoyable experience
@@agodfortheatheistnow So... that's what you think, and you're the decider of all. Thanks for your opinion. I disagree, as do others. And whatever. I'm not even going to bother trying to debate someone who thinks they already have decided fact for all. Bye now.
@@nevynnowhere6322 unlike you, I support everything I think with Evidence Logic Reason and continue to learn- as you said in your comment. You can’t be bothered to learn more.
Do we exist? Of course we do.
I think therefore I KNOW from personal experience and observation I AM.
Everything else is a creation of my consciousness.
BUT: everything we perceive as physical is not .
atoms are subatomic particles which are just a perception of vibrating energy which is NOT PHYSICAL
100111000111 the binary expression of every thing we think exists- pure consciousness 1 NOT PHYSICAL vibrating in w ass a universe of nothingness 0 NOT PHYSICAL
&@&$(()&@@@@@
I am pretty sure there is no “reality”, and that is why we had to create a reality. Think about it.
the creator - god - a singularity consciousness 1 in a universe of nothingness 0, vibrating 1011000111 as a very BORED LONELY consciousness.
varying the frequency of those vibrations. Creating Decibels Angstroms Thoughts
I think therefore I AM
sounds colours ideas ALL JUST VIBRATING ENERGY!!!!
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The problem is one of, the physical perception of realty vs the spiritual and intellectual . Ontologically speaking
upon the realization of our (collective consciousness) existence there was a BIG BANG explosion of unanswerable questions
what am I, where,when, how , WHY, do I know “I AM” ???
I think therefore I AM- Tell them I AM has sent you
Enoch is one of the angels that god the creator uses to transfer gods questions from the spiritual reality into an intellectual expression which then creates a perception of a physical perception so we can enjoy our consciousness as vibrating energy - sights - sounds - thoughts - all just different aspect for this bored lonely singularity to create a more enjoyable experience by creating answers to these unanswerable questions that plagued god.
@@nevynnowhere6322 I have my opinion but apparently you are only interested in your own opinion and those who agree with you. That’s why you say “bye” instead of discussing your difference of opinion. Sounds very totalitarian to me. I hope you can overcome that “drawback
snag
downside
stumbling block
And be able to learn from them instead of reinforcing the ignorance they are causing you to stagnate within.
First i admit I'm just a lowly Reader of books, self educated High school drop out who has for 48 years has experienced life from far to many shoe's. From what McGlchrist has Taught me through "The Master and Emissary" and some of my own real world Experiences i have a hypothesis that try's to answer the question. "why have societies become more left Brained". What if antidepressants interfere with the natural communications between the left and right brains? Whether it puts the right hemisphere asleep or simply interferes with the ability's of the left and right to communicate.
If the right hemisphere relies on the left as to the "Corporal" Reality and that relay is slowed down or in some way corrupted or twisted, the right brain would have a hard time seeing the world clearly. but i think it must be more of a silencing of Socrates Demon. If Antidepressant silence the right hemisphere, long term goals become irrelevant and one would be simplified to repeat the same premia facial goal's and positions over and over again never developing effect world strategies, Or seeing how basic fixes might have or attribute these fixes to unforeseen consequences.
Or let us hypothesis that the right brain gets put to sleep or silenced by antidepressants . what would that person's behavior be .
The left brain / right brain dichotomy was debunked decades ago. If you paid attention to the master and his emissary you’ve perhaps noticed that Ian can’t take his own advice. The new book is a warped model of the brain itself - and a type of cancer- and a joke on all of us.
Rather than breadth vs depth, I rather like Lee Cronbach's framing of bandwidth vs fidelity. That was obviously in the context of psychometrics, but seems a fundamental trade-off in a resource constrained information processing system.
Being There. LOL
Cities create madness
Did anyone else get irritated by the interviewer when he kept saying "um"?
50:23 it’s all about control for the left.
1 Corinth 2:14 “The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.”
Most I meet are anti creative YUK!!
Nobody has any fucking clue how the brain works. Nice jack-o’-lantern.
The CZcams algorithm is hitting hard, hot dang...
It's so frustrating listening to Iain McGilchrist because he consistently mixes up what the right hemisphere is responsible for vs what both hemispheres working in conjunction are responsible for. For example he talks about the right hemisphere being responsible for embodied, holistic experience, but without the help of the left hemisphere someone may struggle to selectively focus on specific aspects of the embodied experience or to maintain a coherent representation. He has a single hammer of hemisphere differences when he could benefit a lot from including other parts of the brain such as the cingulate cortex in order to give a more complete picture of how the brain works. Both the corpus callosum and the cingulate cortex play important roles in coordinating the activity between the two hemispheres of the brain.
@Mike Fuller Indeed, both hemispheres working together are more of the rule than the exception, it's extremely difficult to find activities that truly only involve only one hemisphere.
Have you read Iain's books? Often he speaks in shorthand in interviews like these because the nuanced truth takes many hundreds of pages.
Omg you're sooo smart. You should on tv
The left hemisphere cannot have an embodied experience.
@@robertwhiteley-yv1sy Both the left and right hemispheres are involved in embodied experience.