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

• a thing without its opposite and so there's this left hemisphere fantasy that we can create a world in which all
• one of the hemispheres of our brain takes the left hemisphere and we shouldn't be paying too much
• enabling us to understand it in all its complexity whereas the left hemisphere is giving us just a theoretical
• things up into parts is a an artifact of the left hemisphere's piecemeal attention so because it's trying to
• sentences the left hemisphere sees a word which is made up of fragments of tiny pieces that
• and so it's this world is one that this left hemisphere's version of the world is one made up of bits that are separate
• um it's not that something's wrong with the left hemisphere's understanding it's just that it's so very powerful so very
• the right hemisphere sees the body as a whole but the left hemisphere only recognizes parts
• map for the territory and i wanted to talk a bit about that left hemisphere issue idea too you know so
• information about the world the left hemisphere is inferior to the right so it's not just attention i've
• and creativity and in all these respects the left hemisphere is inferior to the right and it's interesting that
• misperceptions the misconceptions of the left hemisphere and this on the other hand has the hallmarks the stamp of
• kind of those are those left hemisphere types that you're talking about
• extends the narrow range of what we might describe as left hemisphere consistency
• than just categorical examples in the way the left hemisphere isn't so in any case all i'm really saying is that i
• consciously say how we did something the left hemisphere which knows diddly squat about how we actually did get there
• that doesn't make um a sort of left hemisphere procedural um analysis of the piece worthless so i
• um and that then um it goes to the left hemisphere where it's um seen as oh yes it's one of those
• mean that time was wasted the left hemisphere's contribution is very important but the point is it's
• but we often think nowadays that we think in a very linear left hemisphere way that opposites are the two ends of a
• that's another image that i would say and your vision of the left hemisphere operating at the level of detail in the
• a thing without its opposite and so there's this left hemisphere fantasy that we can create a world in which all
• rather as i say the left hemisphere wants either or he wants things black and white the right
• i don't think we should dismiss the what the left hemisphere has just has to offer so we need not either either or
• are dominated by the way in which the left hemisphere sees the world the left hemisphere after all helps you grab
• map out that new crevice and so you imagine that your left hemisphere built up or there's a representation of that
• the future in other words once it's gone from the left hemisphere's attention it ceases to exist so it's not even not
• as though this it's not as though this left hemisphere tendency is simply
• see something or it you know but the left hemisphere for the left hemisphere if it isn't in the map as it were then
• typically to it's typically to um to do what the left hemisphere always does which is to um turn it into a
• is that that instrumentalization which would be a left hemisphere function is extremely useful if you have a narrow

Iain McGilchrist, 'We Need to Act' 93,480

• in fact what i see is the domination of a way of thinking of the left hemisphere which is relatively
• the different brain hemispheres one is that the the left hemisphere sees usually only one simple view of
• much commoner when the right hemisphere is damaged and the left hemisphere is trying to construct a reality
• point of view because the left hemisphere is the one that seeks power that manipulates it's
• if you like left hemisphere whereas viewed from another point of
• difference between the hemispheres this i actually call the left hemispheres generated world a hall of mirrors
• to some degree an exaggeration of the left hemisphere's world and a diminution of the
• field and it sees it in depth where the left hemisphere tends to see a two-dimensional
• fragmenting driven attention of the left hemisphere looking for the next step forward which
• talked about how anger lateralizes to the left hemisphere and if we're in a much more angry
• and it also goes with a sense of self-righteousness the left hemisphere when things have been pointed out to it
• belongs to you doctor nothing to do with me because the left hemisphere is always right and it gets furious when
• and rational and reasonable but actually the left hemisphere is not reasonable in its attitudes and is not
• dependable it's much more in touch with reality the left hemisphere is the one that jumps to conclusions so when daniel
• we're getting there to that puritanical highly left hemisphere-dominated way of thinking
• this left hemisphere drive to that truth as they see it people who think they have
• don't have an obvious utility but the left hemisphere has got us into the mess we're in by always pursuing utility

The Attack On Life and Understanding Our Times. A conversation with Iain McGilchrist and Mark Vernon 83,628

• towards um a set of values served by the left hemisphere and the left is interested primarily in command and
• and that is largely speaking what the left hemisphere of the brain is for not for truth seeking
• there that evolution has given us the left hemisphere and part of the need for survival and but as
• that's exactly the point of view if you ask the left hemisphere which is very self-referring to work out what's
• one that is in overall supervision of what the left hemisphere does because when it goes it alone when it thinks it
• this refusal of limits which is the defiant spirit of the left hemisphere and you said it doesn't want to let go
• the world literally to grasp it and when the left hemisphere is um uh
• hand because this is the default mode of the left hemisphere whereas i like to contrast that with the right

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

• that i believe is the way in which the left hemisphere operates it it has evolved the way it has because it helps
• hemisphere has outsource grabbing and getting stuff to the left hemisphere and remained able to understand
• nietzsche doesn't doubt deeply enough it it's almost like the left hemisphere is capable of this profound doubt but it
• people have sometimes said to me does this not shut down the left hemisphere and at least right not at all in fact um

Beyond Materialism: The Matter With Things | with Dr. Iain McGilchrist 31,694

• look like if we only listen to the sort of things our left hemisphere can tell us and very few people have failed to
• would come to us if we could attend both with the right and the left hemispheres one in which the coincidence of

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

• everything important was done by the left hemisphere um
• changed it had like having a left hemisphere stroke you can't use your hand often you
• implicit meaning irony humor narratives myths the left hemisphere takes it all literally the right hemisphere is the
• richer connections with the body than the left hemisphere quite literally and with the emotional part of our being
• society we've essentially did become a left hemisphere society uh just explain that and how that sort of
• preferentially dealt with by the left hemispheres and you don't see the big picture in which
• beautiful symbiosis and synergy of what the left hemisphere gives and knows and what the right hemisphere gives and
• always with the right hemisphere taking under its aegis the left hemisphere it needs to be the master the emissary goes
• which the the right hemisphere has done sorry the left hemisphere has come to dominate the right hemisphere and
• come to it has has that sort of domination of the left hemisphere which wants to simply organize categorize and
• that the left hemisphere starting with details and building up sees everything
• um the left hemisphere is not happy with ambivalences with things that can't be
• the way in which ian talks about this right left hemisphere and the way it's come to change the way our culture
• distillation of the proficiencies of the left hemisphere and so what does that mean for us as
• something new can happen it then goes to the left hemisphere it says oh familiar i put it in this cathode of that one and
• praying god if you like that's a it's an apotheosis of the left hemisphere i'd like to have power over everything

The Wisdom Of Intuition - Iain McGilchrist | Modern Wisdom Podcast 455 23,862

• further in the direction of privileging the left hemisphere which um spoiler alert is the less intelligent
• and manipulate the world so i sometimes say the left hemisphere enables us to apprehend the world in sense of grasping
• and one way of thinking of this is that the left hemisphere schematizes um it's the hemispheres theory it has a
• world it's very often useful to have a map and the left hemisphere holds the map the trouble is that the left
• control or mastery of the situation that unfortunately the left hemisphere when it thinks it knows everything um
• two things to say the first is that the left hemisphere sees this relationship as competitive as either
• it needs the information the left hand the left hemisphere gives but it's just that it all that
• has its true value if you stop at where the left hemisphere is you're left with a bunch of meaningless fragments of
• so probably the left hemisphere thinks it knows it all yes
• and more quickly with the left hemisphere than the left hemisphere does with the right although for what the
• how would their behavior differ well the person with the left hemisphere stroke would have obvious
• 89 of us are probably right-handed so for most people a left hemisphere stroke has
• well you know thank goodness it wasn't a left hemisphere they're still functional they're just a functional [ __ ]
• that the rehabilitation of somebody after a left hemisphere stroke but in which they may have lost
• not explicit is important whereas the left hemisphere only understands the explicit meaning can't understand a joke
• one of the most obvious is that using the left hemisphere um
• the world feed straight into using the left hemisphere and also once you get outside of decisions that
• argue that um because as it were the left hemisphere's picture which is the one that language is designed to put
• and we never know quite what's going to happen it's only the left hemisphere that thinks that kind of thing so

Of Sound Mind: Sound and Betweenness - Dr Iain McGilchrist & Professor Nina Kraus 14,949

• it is an art because as far as the left hemisphere is concerned there are fairly simple
• um this is a problem because of course it's due to the left hemisphere wanting to localize things and suggest that it's
• um precise data and that is really the sort of left hemisphere thing which is which can be developed quite highly in
• because we don't start with the bits and make the whole left hemisphere fashion we start with the whole and science

"Balancing the Brain" with Iain McGilchrist and Satish Kumar 13,624

• narrow being piecemeal attention the left hemisphere sees a world of details that are isolated
• interconnected it understands that parts of the left hemisphere's invention and that what are seen as parts are already
• want to focus on for tonight one is that the left hemisphere is preferentially interested in tools
• and the trouble is that if you use the left hemisphere's way of looking at the world you soon begin to believe that the
• alerted you to this between the reliability of the left hemisphere and the its denial of reality there are
• relatives and what transpires is the left hemisphere has a remarkably high opinion of itself compared with what
• i am at pains to evaluate how much the left hemisphere is able to clock reality compared with the
• very preponderantly more um following left hemisphere falling for right hemisphere damage and
• and then there is the fact that the left hemisphere having a theory about things wants everything
• it's a lie but when the left hemisphere of the very same individual
• this picture of the world is quite typical of how the left hemisphere would see it this picture is more like the
• right hemisphere would see it it doesn't mean to say the left hemisphere picture has no
• rebalance the hemispheres at the moment the left hemispheres is having it all its own way
• civilization the left hemisphere's resonant is to manipulate and to control to master
• pictures the mentality of the left hemisphere is such that it must believe that it is in
• the divine or the holy the left hemisphere has constructed things the other way around so the idea
• own speech a good balance of right hemisphere and the left hemisphere you have made it very
• what i didn't emphasize is the way in which the left hemisphere decontextualizes because of course it
• from around the world come and they are trained in left hemisphere just manage money and no economy london's club
• uh a state where the the left hemisphere is serving the right in some way
• using the right hemisphere women are using the left hemisphere it's testosterone that causes the right
• this is what the right hemisphere sees this is what the left hemisphere denies it's terribly important in fact i argue
• published the master in his chemistry you know it's terribly left hemisphere book
• also a huge mistake to think that the left hemisphere represents science and maths and the right hemisphere the arts
• taken into account which it can do what the left hemisphere offers because the right amateur has this both
• in the service of the right hemisphere so the left hemisphere is working as a mystery yes and and honoring the right
• as ian said uh language is uh articulation is kind of left hemisphere activity but we are offering this
• true harmony between the two there's nothing wrong with the left hemisphere until it thinks it's the one that should
• it is necessary to have a contribution of the left hemisphere as well as the right and in judaism there is what's
• important in creation and an experience of everything once the left hemisphere starts saying i know it i've got it i've
• in the abstract these people who are left hemisphere people i mean i i don't really intend to simplify things that
• really intend to simplify things that much but i think the left hemispheres um mind set that we seem to be espousing