Trust your unconscious | Iain McGilchrist and John Cleese on neuroscience and creativity
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- Part 3 of an exclusive How To Academy talk. Watch part 4 here: • The brain needs humour...
Live on stage, John Cleese and Dr Iain McGilchrist come together to explore the place of imagination in our lives and culture, drawing both comedy, neuroscience, philosophy, and creativity - in an exclusive How To Academy conversation.
John Cleese co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python’s Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. In the mid-1970s, Cleese co-wrote and starred in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. Later, he co-starred in A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures. He also starred in Clockwise, and has appeared in many other films, including two James Bond films, two Harry Potter films, and the last three Shrek films. On CZcams, his appearances on The Graham Norton Show (with Lee Mack and Taylor Swift), on SCR2 (with Bill Burr, Jerry Seinfeld and Ricky Gervais), MetaMeet, BritBox (Policewomen sketch), RadioCentre (with Matthew Wright on blacklisting himself from Cambridge University), Byline TV, The Nightly Show, Robert Grimsby, Late night with Seth Meyers, Real Time with Bill Maher, LiveTalks LA, BBC Newsnight, Rebel Wisdom (on philosophy, spirituality and political correctness), Team CoCo Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Tom Tom Foundation - have amassed tens of millions of views combined.
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.
Hannah MacInnes is a broadcaster and journalist. Alongside hosting How To Academy’s live programmes and podcast, she presents a cultural show on Times Radio and interviews on-stage at a number of other major literary events. She is the host of The Klosters Forum Podcast series and has written for the Radio Times, the Evening Standard and TLS. Before going freelance she worked for 8 years at BBC Newsnight, as Planning Editor and as a Producer / Filmmaker.
Watch more of Iain here: czcams.com/video/O9mG-dUhoLc/video.html - in conversation with Sir Philip Pullman!
How I wish conversations like this were shown (and repeated) on prime time TV instead of so-called 'reality' drivel or woke pap. Living treasures these two. Thanks all involved, Iain especially. Hopefully there will be many translations and many millions of reads of his book
What you really mean is, you wish you could have an intelligent conversation, once in a while.
I wish I could like your comment 1,000 x
That's very left brainy. Highbrow content OR watching hot bimbos, as opposed to both.
So kind.
Part 4 is "private" and is currently inaccessible.
I would really like to see that part as well,
given that I admire those on stage.
11:25 . I'm always reminded of Bruce Lee's profound statement about learning martial arts:
_“Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.”_
Many creative people believe they were most free of orthodoxy in the pre-acquisitional stages of their self expression when venturing into a new area, because they untrammelled of tropes and cliche's due to ignorance of existing practices, but the idiot-savant mentality is somewhat mythologised by artists such as Miles Davis who claimed Bitches Brew was created ex nihilo, despite it being learned later that the sessions were meticulously planned and reiterated until they achieved what he found to be an acceptable version of his vision.
Many great artists who venture into the unknown have venerable formal training, which they then transgress upon discovering the limitations of the form itself.
Thrilling conversation, and I've just ordered The Master and the Emissary, having read Jayne's stupendous theories on the Bicameral mind years ago.
Thank you kindly.
Resistance is essential to creativity
I'AM within. Yet move throughout, by conscious effort of unconscious experience.
strive to Knowing but never reaching..
where is part 4? can't access it.
which songs do you want to take with you? for the ride and beyond?
the music washes me clean in process, in between? makes me empty of all but my experiencing and intent?
"the Greatest wisdom comes from knowing what is Mans doing and what is Heavens doing.. the Sorting which evens things out." . . the Emperors chief gardener Chuang Tzu.
It strikes me that everything which animates us is driven by sentience, narrative and meaning. The denial of which, impugns the materialist apparatus, not the experience of a non-material reality
Consciousness is all pervasive!
im gonna get to sing again someday, if not here, then here there everywhere!:)
Little Red Rooster With " Howling wolf, Eric Clapton
Intuition exists within a paranormal dimension accessible only by the right mind. Nothing is truly created outside of the energy field of consciousness by an individual..It is merely discovered through a creative imagination...It was already there and waiting to manifest... That includes comedy.
I think Iain would describe intuition as a faculty of the right hemisphere and therefore part of what constitutes ‘normal’
if you try too hard to get onto the head of the pin like the many angels there, you will likely become a pin-head hahahaha
so close together and so far apart hahaha
The Rolling Stones - Factory Girl (Official Lyric Video)
to square - the maximum potential of self change?
I understand that Iain doesn’t like to be too explicit but in the case of ‘matter being a phase of consciousness’ I feel that metaphors about gas and ice, are not helping to clarify the concept
Cleasey never heard about zero resistance to nazi occupation in the channel Islands 🏝 in second world war
Consciousness - the breath of God, matter - the dust of the earth. Interesting that when Rupert Sheldrake went to Cambridge to study biology, it was because he loved life. The first thing they did was extinguish life and dismember the body to examine the matter (dust). A similar thing appears to happen when the arts are studied; the work is pulled apart and it's value is lost in the process.
I know that to be perceptive is out of bounds for a highly intellectual discussion however given the starkness of present plight on planet earth surely some room could be made for what we should do?
Why is there no information as to how to access the right hemisphere and bring about some balance?
My own prescription would be the same as Jungs, be humble enough or is that humble the left hemisphere and enter the unconscious via your dreams.
Mark Vernon created a video on how to live more thru the right hemisphere. And Iain does make suggestions too.
If consciousness is a building block of the universe perhaps mankind is just a temporary steward and in time it will migrate to a A1 network system and we will become caretakers of the system. We have built the network, that was our role, now the notion of the individual will decay as it will be no longer required in fact it will be counter productive to the stability of the system.
A system that is unstable due to individuality is or will become parasitic, else it will die.
@@enjerth78 Perhaps the notion of the individual is simply an enabling mechanism that allows growth and development and when no longer needed will become irrelevant and decay. Terrifying to the population of the west, less so to eastern society. We'll never know!!
@@geralldus Life is growth and development.
Great! Looking forward to the podcasts with Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson. I hope he goes on Joe Rogan's show as well.
Thats crazy Iain, but have you ever tried hunting dmt and smoking elk?
@@uupstairsthomasmcnulty914 this comment is being slept on.
Faulty Towers is a subtle comedy which is difficult to understand today. Taken literally, without irony, the humour is not there.
it is the planet of the apes no doubt!
Also consider what U.S grocers contend with in packaged toilet paper. "X number of rolls of our product equals Y number rolls of some un-named other product". What is the purpose of this except to exclaim qualities of value and quality without conveying anything close to useful information?.....'>.....
The book in-it-self must be very expensive product if its been sold 100 000 copy. It sounds for me a bit hypocrite position from the author. I mean, he has deep critical insight about modern human life but at the same time he follows its pattern and keep it moving too.
Huh?
mammals heat producing bodies are contributing to global warming
we should try to get rid of them to protect the planet
hahahahaha
He mentions the Major's racism is not his own, then goes and tells his French civil wars joke.
"Nobody has a clue because it didn't happen." That's a rather loaded and presumptuous statement. Just because we don't yet know how something happened certainly is no indicator of whether or not it happened. This is the entire purpose of science, to learn what is going on, the how and why. I haven't read Iain's books and I am going to get a couple to try to understand what he's saying but I have read other's who have posited the same ideas and I can't get past that this seems to just boil down to wishful thinking, woo woo, and we don't understand so it must be. "Physicists have been saying this for 100 years". Really? Not the ones I've learned from. Seems to me that a hell of a lot of work needs to be done on the subject still to demonstrate this. We don't understand conscientiousness yet but that doesn't mean we won't or can't. I'll read Iain's work but on the surface, this feels like the kind of bullshit Deepak Chopra frequently spews, just in a more professional presentation.
Do you really think we’ll ever understand consciousness? Can we really know ourselves? As it’s been said, fire doesn’t burn itself, the knife doesn’t cut itself, the eye doesn’t see itself.
My eye can see itself in the mirror. I can look at and into other people’s eyes. We can dissect eyes and experiment on them. Look, yes consciousness is a very interesting and difficult thing to understand but if our mindset is “we’ll never be able to understand it for x, y, and z reasons” then of course we won’t ever figure it out. What a terrible and depressing mindset to have about anything. I’d rather have an open and inquisitive mind and work a problem my whole life without success than the alternative.
@@alrdye Good luck with your objective analysis of something outside yourself that you aren’t certain is there.
@@michaelricketson1365Good luck to you as well with your bewilderment.
@@alrdye Yes, you’ve got it all figured out. 🙄
People who have barely any understanding of context are unlikely to get others perspective