Science vs philosophy | Iain McGilchrist Meets Philip Pullman
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- čas přidán 9. 01. 2022
- This is part 1 of an exclusive How To Academy event. See part 2 here: • ‘Magic’ and our brains...
Philip Pullman’s novels are a testament to the power of the human imagination and a celebration of our capacity for wonder. It is an ethos shared by the neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist, whose book The Master and His Emissary was that rare thing: a bestselling classic of modern philosophy with genuine relevance to human life. In this event, the two men will come together to explore questions of the mind, psychiatry, and imagination. It is an unmissable conversation for anyone who feels disenchanted with the contemporary way of living and seeks a richer, more humanitarian, more enlightened way of being.
Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and of the Royal Society of Arts, as well as a former Clinical Director of the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. His previous book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World reached international recognition and acclaim and has placed him as one of the greatest thinkers and philosophers of our time. His new book is The Matter With Things. On CZcams, his appearances on RSA (on the Divided Brain), Perspectiva (with Jordan Peterson), Jordan B Peterson (on a Brain divided and The master and his emissary), Tom Bilyeu (Everything you know about the brain is wrong), Russell Brand (Left vs Right - is your brain controlled by corrupt systems), Sam Harris (the divided mind), The Weekend University (Matter and Consciousness), Theories of everything with Curt Jaimungal (on Existence, being, the limits of reason and language), Rebel Wisdom (on certainty and flow), Awakening with Russell (why do we all perceive reality differently?) and Ralston College (The coincidence of opposites) - have amassed millions of views combined.
Sir Philip Pullman's first children’s book, Count Karlstein, was published in 1982. To date, he has published thirty-three books, read by children and adults alike. His most famous work is the His Dark Materials trilogy - recently adapted by HBO. These books have been honoured by several prizes including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Book Prize, and (for The Amber Spyglass) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year’s Honours List for Services to Literature.
Watch part 2 here: czcams.com/video/O9mG-dUhoLc/video.html
Iain McGilchrist's 'elevator pitch' deserved a thunderous applause and a standing ovation. Thank you for this wonderful conversation.
This is a combination of minds and a conversation I never imagined. Wonderful.
Thanks SO much! Really looking forward to part 3!
Excellent conversation - much appreciated. Thanks!
If I'd known it was a competition ,
I'd have stuck with science.
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I never knew philosophy was so similar to alzheimers; "who am I, what am I doing here, whats going on..."
As Neitzsche proposed ; life without music would be a mistake.
Likewise for life without a clown or two. ....damn fine work , friend.
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Understanding is one thing, conveying it to others is something else.
We might have AI but it will never ever understand music, poetry or humour.
Thanks for this three part conversation. I look forward to buying the books in the states. Who is the facilitator?
Too many adverts ☹️
Thank you so much for making me laugh it was nice to feel again
"Volume is pathetic "!!!.
Science is based on a philosophy, it's called empiricism, whereas the extension of it into physicalism is an untestable hypothesis.
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Why "VS"? Misleading. Trolling. Unnecessary.
Science is a sub discipline of epistemology.
It is the attempt to find the structural lineaments of Maya.
But ultimately a physicist is like a blind man in a dark room trying to find a black cat that isnt there.