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The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist | EP 278 366,180

• understand the world like science reason intuition and imagination we need first of all to have established
• and they are effectively science reason intuition and imagination um science and reason i don't think many
• um because there has been a motivated attack on intuition and imagination in recent years i think that people do
• that dreams which would be in the domain of imagination intuition are willing to sacrifice consistency for inclusion and
• and that is in fact the realm of dream and imagination yeah yeah no that's right
• book about rationality and imagination and intuition and science and what about the
• there if i may i just want to comment on intuition and imagination because i think they are extraordinarily important
• how would you define intuition and imagination well i
• scientific and philosophical insights and then in imagination of course i'm making the distinction which is a very
• very important one between fantasy and imagination i mean this is this originates with
• that covers up reality and takes one away from it but imagination is one's only chance for feeding one's way into
• and shepherd asses um that's fantasy and imagination which was this divine gift as both wordsworth and coleridge very
• rehabilitate intuition and imagination somewhat but show their limitations and i um
• curious about a couple of things on the imagination and the and the hypothesis front so i i want to offer you
• another uh what foray into defining where imagination might begin on the fringes of rationality so
• you can imagine that rationality shades into imagination and then you made this distinction that
• distinction that fantasy is the misuse of imagination to replace reality which is a nice
• is that there's no conflict between science reason imagination and intuition in good science they all work together
• them more obviously in the case of intuition and imagination but nonetheless importantly in reason and
• amount of time in the world of the imagination imagining for example what it would be like to travel at the speed
• of light and we could also point out i think as well that the imagination differs from the uh propositional in
• in some sense than linguistic concepts and so the imagination tends to be less linguistic and reductive and abstracted
• definitely the case if you think about imagination and intuition that imagine that in some sense you lay out or you
• something like truth in language and imagination serving love
• they don't look at the role of imagination and intuition especially in the revolutionary scientific process and

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• intuition imagination uh spiritual meaning all these things
• that um you know intuitions that imagination the art and the things that give us
• and we need to take into account also intuition and imagination the interesting thing is that when you
• nonetheless the fruition is creative and comes from the imagination and is often accompanied by a sense of
• divide between science and reason on the one hand and intuition and imagination on the other absolutely not
• between those who mechanize science and reason and mechanize our imagination and forbid our intuitions on the one
• and um not the imagination to see beyond their own point so it's very harmful and it

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• forgetting mislaying um lacking um the imagination that i think is as powerful as say you
• you need to build in the sense of curiosity enjoyment um imagination engagement
• doesn't really take us anywhere where real imagination is productive um it it it aids um us our

Iain McGilchrist Λ John Vervaeke on Reality, God, Meaning, Consciousness, and Being 59,464

• what we can learn from intuition and imagination so um uh i tend to use the word belief
• that we need each of science reason intuition and imagination not just one or two of these and if possible in most
• um escapist fantasy and then the imaginal is imagination for the sake of enhancing perception and the the given
• um this is precisely distinction i make between what i call imagination and fancy following following words within
• exactly between fantasy that takes us away from reality and imagination which is our only chance to enter into reality
• of course there's an enormous amount that could be said about the imagination and its qualities and how it enables us
• putting together stuff that doesn't really exercise our imagination but words with famously with
• unusual and to go back to this idea of imagination in which you see into things that you thought you knew and then
• reason we should we should also honor intuition and imagination and you know just perhaps to the last thing i shall
• too great for it and can only be conveyed through imagination in myths imagination in
• conveyed through imagination in myths imagination in a religious faith or a spiritual realm

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• one can bring in every kind of imagination including the humerus there so i don't

Iain McGilchrist & Sharon Dirckx • Brain science, consciousness & God 28,912

• that will get you to the conclusion that neurons create thoughts the imagination is the only chance we have to reach
• and effectively the life the magic the imagination the spirit went out of the civilizations and they collapsed and i'm
• and rest for the flourishing of the imagination and intuition and we are a society that has
• i think it has this impact on us but importantly intuition and imagination are now um thought of as sort of
• saying fantasy is one thing but imagination is the only chance we have to reach
• are so full of full of imagination and from behind a newspaper a grumpy
• math don was heard to snort imagination imagination made it all up wonderful because neatly points out the
• difference between just random creation and actually imagination which contacts the reality and brings it
• the thing that really matters which is the imagination which is the the contact with the the the values the the the

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• the book i look at science reason intuition and imagination as probably the four ways that most people

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• using our reason using our intuition and above all using our imagination which doesn't take us away from reality but

AI World Summit 2022 Dr Iain McGilchrist on Artificial Intelligence and The Matter with Things 13,537

• this aim evil they may just have a failure of imagination but the aim itself is evil if we can call anything
• what matters for the future of humanity is imagination and the values by which we allow ourselves to be led
• the left hemisphere can often be an impediment to imagination and its value is single and simple
• spontaneity openness to risk and trust in our intuition for an imagination and creativity and for us to be alive and
• among these our wisdom itself followed closely by imagination creativity courage humility virtue love sympathy

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• popular nowadays intuition and imagination and so in the second part of the book which is addressing