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Asymmetry and Symmetry - Dr Iain McGilchrist 5,144

• time space matter consciousness and their relations and then values and purpose and the sense of
• so that in this process the brain and the consciousness that it helps mediate for us in whatever way it does has this
• that our obsession with mata and the being only matter that consciousness is really reduced to matter and everything

What's the Way Forward? | Dr. Iain McGilchrist & Jonathan Pageau 4,924

• aren't four things as it were we need a complete shift in consciousness that is the point and in my terms this means
• about things like time and space and matter and consciousness but also
• radical change of consciousness is a pretty big project and and i think that it can seem

Iain McGilchrist and Michael Levin in conversation 4,667

• about that in a long chapter on consciousness and matter which um in which i effectively suggest spoiler
• completely irrational to suppose that consciousness can somehow simply emanate from matter unless you have a different
• amazing so you know there's so i i take the view that matter and consciousness are not wholly distinct and that they
• water has phases they don't look like one another but i think consciousness has phases that don't look like one
• importantly resistant element in consciousness because i believe for reasons that are probably too long to go

Iain McGilchrist in Dialogue at the PCC Forum 4,584

• the nature of space and time matter and energy and consciousness including the purpose of life and the
• not as a an emitter or a producer of consciousness but as a medium you do show in in great detail
• can degrade or transform uh our our consciousness or particular features of our consciousness so to get started here
• consciousness or particular features of our consciousness so to get started here can you can you speak to both uh your
• brain is that the brain might emit consciousness which to me is the least likely although the popular one in
• it could transmit consciousness which is we've got a lot more going for it and my preferred uh
• more going for it and my preferred uh option is that it permits consciousness by which i mean it sculpts
• by which i mean it sculpts greater consciousness into my individual consciousness and i often create here a
• greater consciousness into my individual consciousness and i often create here a wonderful image of william james that he
• and how it might affect our our consciousness of the world um in in the documentary made on your
• being a non-being as and the consciousness and non-consciousness certainly if you're going to claim that
• certainly if you're going to claim that mata has no vestige of consciousness whatever i do see this as hard and fast
• barriers and that therefore consciousness cannot derive from matter if you define matters having no
• if you define matters having no consciousness whatsoever and there is no such thing as existence appearing out of
• and so i say what we see as real is an encounter between my consciousness and whatever else is and that my
• whatever else is and that my consciousness affects what that is and that encounter affects me in what i
• and its richness and its intelligence and its consciousness in my view then of course you've got a hard problem all
• ontological primitives as i believe consciousness is they can't be derived i don't think we invent them i think we
• universe into say matter and life and mind or consciousness um creates all sorts of
• evolution and relationship to life and and consciousness very moved by that if you bear with me i have like uh it's
• visiting our community here our philosophy cosmology consciousness community and uh we've been looking

Dr Iain McGilchrist - Understanding the human brain 3,845

• he says that consciousness is something that civilizations
• thrive as they make less and less necessary for consciousness because consciousness is rich and
• necessary for consciousness because consciousness is rich and conscious sorry unconsciousness is rich
• conscious sorry unconsciousness is rich consciousness is very expensive and he says it's like cavalry charges in battle

Reflections on Iain McGilchrist's The Matter with Things - Pari Center Anniversary event 3,776

• time flow and movement space and matter matter and consciousness value purpose life and the nature of the cosmos and
• also there's something about you say that consciousness is not in space but it is in time and that seems to be a
• rather crucial point for grasping what consciousness is it's not in space but it is in time
• and then you go on um into you know theory of consciousness and then you get to value purpose of the
• matter have a chapter together and matter and consciousness less surprising
• resistance you get into a theory of consciousness which is a kind of pan psychism other
• somewhere around the end of the consciousness chapter where you describe um i think if i'm right i've got written
• realizing there's something fundamental about consciousness and pervasive intelligence in the universe
• hypothesis um and consciousness in particular is that if you uh speaking to a hardened
• and then and one question for the consciousness is also always for me what role has consciousness in our dreams as
• consciousness is also always for me what role has consciousness in our dreams as it during sleep
• or less uh bright consciousness i think i am the same person and i'm
• that it does play a part in our consciousness and when i was in medical school not only did i hear almost
• experience between hearing you play your cello and my mind and my consciousness and my memories and so on so there are
• to answer that particular question but the consciousness is not simply the brain and one observation made by the
• of course your your three perspectives the brain emits consciousness the brain transmits consciousness and the brain
• the brain emits consciousness the brain transmits consciousness and the brain permits consciousness i found to be a
• transmits consciousness and the brain permits consciousness i found to be a helpful
• of the divine and how that ties into how we think about consciousness and um i suppose my question to you is
• inordinately different levels of consciousness that we see in humans compared with the rest of the animal
• know we were talking about the different levels of consciousness that can be experienced by a human being or whether
• you were talking about the different levels of consciousness as one looks through the animal world and the in the
• i'm trying to come to your point is that our consciousness is more able to respond than other creatures i think
• at the end of the chapter on matter and consciousness which is not out yet and so towards the very end of the chapter
• you quote stewart sutherland who wrote referring to consciousness that nothing worth reading has been written on it
• these as we were discussing chapter 25 but lateral consciousness and you said something that when you finished and
• with any of these things and you're talking about consciousness but also about the sense of the sacred and so on

Imagination and the novelist's art - Iain McGilchrist and Salley Vickers 3,583

• way that somehow opens her consciousness out into something which
• um as it were as it were representations of the consciousness that you write about as being present in all things
• um you know everything about us has some form of consciousness and i i think i have a feeling that most
• is part of being embodied but there is something about consciousness and particularly dreams i think where
• applies also to the people's consciousness if they're entangled i i believe to this day this
• and i don't see why um consciousness i mean you shouldn't necessarily know i think it does know
• else that there are limits as if we're to our consciousness but that nonetheless this is connected to a field
• nonetheless this is connected to a field of consciousness which is which is universal
• in a with a slightly different part of their consciousness aren't they it's a dialogue with a different aspect
• it's a dialogue with a different aspect of your own one's own consciousness yes i'm sure that's that's it that's

Dr Iain McGilchrist - Brain Hemispheres, The Sacred & Divine, Meaning & More 3,398

• to experience in an altered state of consciousness but i think that also she i think she

The wisdom traditions - Iain McGilchrist and Muhammed Foulds 3,276

• that of deep contemplation and consciousness awareness that then that first command came to him from
• about you muhammad but i believe that consciousness is fundamental in the cosmos it is not something that's
• and by other brains into the shapes that make my consciousness your consciousness and so on but the consciousness is
• make my consciousness your consciousness and so on but the consciousness is foundational in the universe
• believe or what's your view on collective consciousness and and there's a verse in in the in the quran where god
• is actually an encounter between my consciousness your conscious whatever it is and the greater consciousness of the
• consciousness your conscious whatever it is and the greater consciousness of the cosmos so all of those things i agree
• you you whereas you can't get consciousness out of matter if you consider the matter to be entirely

The Divided Brain and the Sense of the Sacred with Iain McGilchrist 2,750

• conflicting and can only be done if you're sustaining consciousness with two neural networks
• question would you agree that the mode of consciousness that provided for animism is a likely source for religion
• for me to express what i think about consciousness there is a we've been talking about chapter 28 but
• chapter 25 i think it is is on matter and consciousness and it's also a short book in length
• but it to cut to the chase on that i believe that consciousness is never derivable
• um from matter that has no consciousness in it it's not a gap that can be jumped
• so i take consciousness to be one of the building blocks of the cosmos
• i think that consciousness has to be in the anonymous as well as the animate
• certainly in ourselves takes place i believe that all consciousness is not a thing somewhere or even just a kind of
• capacity to respond to that consciousness in the world and the other is to speeding up this process
• had a number of people to ask me about consciousness in in in the chat um and of course you you mentioned it earlier
• in what's called david chalmers calls the hard problem of consciousness do you believe that's resolvable or is it more
• productive to shift from seeking to understand consciousness to learning to harness consciousness for our holistic
• understand consciousness to learning to harness consciousness for our holistic evolution
• there is an obligation on us to use our consciousness wisely because it is creative our
• wisely because it is creative our consciousness helps bring about what is
• so you're right that consciousness is a powerful
• believe about consciousness is that it's a hard problem
• certain way if you set the problem up as consciousness must somehow emerge out of
• the problem up wrong and that actually consciousness can't emerge from something that has
• emerge from something that has absolutely no consciousness i stress the absolutely because i think there's a
• about a bit gradually you know a little bit of consciousness and like existence there can't be a little bit of existence
• and the same thing is true of consciousness it's not a particularly unusual position
• it's not a particularly unusual position to hold the consciousness is a primary building block of the cosmos it's
• incoherence of a view that somehow a miracle happens and consciousness appears out of unconscious matter
• uh comment on this that we may simply have to accept that consciousness is um one of the building blocks of blocks of
• it's apocryphal it's a lovely story it's consciousness all the way down as far as you're concerned as well the
• you're concerned as well the consciousness is is primal and ontologically basic to the universe
• it's turtles all the way down his consciousness all the way down yes i mean that's what i'm saying
• indeed it can evolve i believe that consciousness in fact does evolve i believe in fact that everything