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Asymmetry and Symmetry - Dr Iain McGilchrist 5,144

• different i think the way of putting this is that the left hemisphere is very much a matter of either or it's it's one
• understands that the the opposites may cohere whereas the left hemisphere it just doesn't compute i mean opposites
• bites is you know the relationship between the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere is like that between a
• certain things will happen so it's part of the role of the left hemisphere which is just simply manipulation not
• the abstraction is drawn secondary by the left hemisphere imperfectly there is a place for perfection

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

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

Iain McGilchrist and Michael Levin in conversation 4,667

• its attention is broad open sustained everything the left hemisphere attention isn't and completely uncommitted as to
• integrate the fragments the fragments come from the left hemisphere's attention now if you if you think that
• looking at this paradox is that's the way that the left hemisphere take would be and the other way of looking at it is
• would be so for example according to the left hemisphere achilles cannot overtake the tortoise it's just impossible but
• yeah and from my point of view it is not part of the left hemispheres evolution that it should be looking for

Iain McGilchrist in Dialogue at the PCC Forum 4,584

• often in public discourse these days we favor the one the left hemisphere one because it's very easy to articulate in
• whatnot in this rush to to cultivate the left hemisphere um
• modern west has been captured by the left hemisphere by its view of of reality and and what's important
• damaged and the individual has to rely only on the left hemisphere and um the the the overall outcome of this is that
• manipulate tools to make machines and so on so the left hemisphere has a huge attraction to us as the means of getting
• lowest level of max shayla's pyramid that the left hemisphere accesses which is utility and pleasure and everything
• civilization starts only to attend to what the left hemisphere says and then the second part of my first book
• control everything which is really the left hemisphere's way of thinking about things and it's leading us i think into
• more generally there's been a bit of a left hemisphere takeover at least among some scientists although as you point
• and i i think that like everything else science has its left hemisphere aspects and its right hemisphere aspects it's
• similarly of course one could say about reason that it has its left hemisphere and its right hemisphere aspect its left
• whatever paper you put in it that is the left hemisphere's idea of purpose utility but i'm not saying that purpose
• but it seems to me that um you know perhaps this left hemisphere way of of compartmentalizing uh the
• everything didn't have um its left hemisphere version and it's right hemisphere version in fact it
• this must be the case and you would expect the left hemisphere take on religion to aggrandize the
• and of course it would be very odd if atheism wasn't also left hemisphere and right hemisphere so the right hemisphere
• hemisphere all theology is a kind of left hemisphere way of trying to articulate right hemisphere intuitions
• that the what is embodied in the left hemisphere and then the right everyone likes to think
• so much to capture but captured by the left hemisphere so it's just whenever i see okay yes standing in for something
• but there is no question about it that the left hemisphere does adopt pretty much all the things i'm talking about
• are going on at this moment in that present in their left hemisphere of course that would be wrong that would be
• interestingly in some respects it is more uh left hemisphere orientated than in westerners and that's why i wanted to
• mentioned the vowels and one of the reasons that the left hemisphere is thought to be better at hearing human
• is that you don't know that necessarily the left hemisphere of somebody who is brought up in the japanese culture is
• something that's a hybrid or something more like a left hemisphere so the difficulty of going too far out with
• um grasp or capture by the left hemisphere where we see them in our own field in
• hemisphere and the left the woman is using the left hemisphere now don't shoot the messenger i'm simply telling
• answer about the oriental brain that maybe a woman's left hemisphere is not so left hemispheric if you like and
• there's some evidence that there's more overlap between the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere in women than there

Dr Iain McGilchrist - Understanding the human brain 3,845

• does each part of the brain do oh the left hemisphere does reason and language and the right hemisphere does
• school um it apparently was there just to prop up the left hemisphere which did everything um
• grabbing and getting and it's not very bright i mean the left hemisphere contrary to what one was taught it's not
• is that the left hemisphere starts with a its own purpose to get
• interconnected not atomistic as they seem to the left hemisphere that they're always moving flowing and changing not
• rigid and separate like slices as they are in the left hemisphere that they're animate that they contain implicit
• animate that they contain implicit meaning not as the right left hemisphere only understands explicit meaning and so
• the world should be according to what's going on in the left hemisphere and and that's a very important contrast in the
• that we are moving further and further into a left hemisphere-dominated world but it's now become extraordinary how
• hemisphere working maximally fruitfully together the left hemisphere always being under the
• hemisphere in the title of that book is the master the left hemisphere is just an emissary who goes about and does
• very much so the left left hemisphere um thinks it knows everything and thinks it knows
• and this is part of it uh the left hemisphere makes you stupid but rich and most people are so addicted
• i you know i'm somewhere on that spectrum i'm rather left hemisphere dominant
• i don't think it would be better if you all had a left hemisphere stroke there's nothing wrong with the left hemisphere
• all had a left hemisphere stroke there's nothing wrong with the left hemisphere it's a it's a very useful servant
• fed up with this what i have shown them to be this left hemisphere world i think a lot of people you know they're hungry
• connected to other creatures and the left hemisphere is more targeted towards prediction to to to catch things

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

• is very much the the sort of imagery that the left hemisphere uses to understand things
• hemisphere to explain something to the left hemisphere when it when it doesn't want to
• can actually mobilize some sort of left hemisphere-like argument to make that case or is that
• world perceiving them and rightly judging them the left hemisphere is inferior to the right so um the right
• won't come and get you out of bed in your you know in your left hemisphere um apartment somewhere that was the fire i
• and was silent night same sort of left hemisphere era that that told me the list of the
• and i i now want to make sure that my left hemisphere so you've gone you've lost we've lost
• that if you uh speaking to a hardened left hemisphere person what questions would you ask try and open the door
• discovered tendencies of the left hemisphere hence the 30 years i've spent working on this
• clearly there's a relation relationship between the left hemisphere and power for example and clearly there's a sort

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

• experiences that on hola rather reductionists left hemisphere dominated culture would
• twice um once in a rather left hemisphere way and once in a much more right hemisphere
• of view if you like or the takes on the world of the left hemisphere and of the right hemisphere and i unpack a passage

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

• for a simplistic term this divided brain um about you know the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere
• fine one hemisphere the left hemisphere does that but if that's all the brain was
• right-handers 97 of us have speech only in the left hemisphere and it's much easier for the speech that the left
• hemisphere has evolved to reflect what the left hemisphere knows which is simple linear structures whereas what
• which is actually one of the things the left hemisphere loves is a clear-cut black and white is it this or is it that
• maybe it's a bit of both um it can be both and whereas the left hemisphere is only either or and so i think that being
• the neuroanatomist uh jill taylor who suffered uh a left hemisphere um stroke and then i know that in her
• come from damage to the right hemisphere not from damage to the left hemisphere so it's our anchor in reality but it's
• perhaps a dementia that largely affects their left hemisphere so that the right hemisphere
• they describe the where the left hemisphere is preserved but the right hemisphere's
• differences between the campus of the left hemisphere and of the right i know that uh carl young uh
• ego i guess you could perhaps link that to the left hemisphere from the ego to self which i guess perhaps in your
• um overwhelmed by it seems always the left hemispheres take eventually um
• characterization of how the world seems in the left hemisphere simple schematic abstracted and how it
• most important topics this is typical of the left hemisphere extreme black and white no subtlety
• because the the resonant depth of the left hemisphere is power it's control and the only value that we now seem to
• and in each case interestingly it's the left hemisphere sorry it's
• so the split is not where i emphasize between the left hemisphere and science on the one hand and the right hemisphere
• workaday science and times tables in the left hemisphere but great mathematical insights solving the problems of science
• mentioned but perhaps ought to is that the left hemisphere is a very good servant but a very poor master in other
• the right hemisphere it can direct the left hemisphere to do certain procedures that are very familiar to it and it can
• hang on i'm looking at this you know and the left hemisphere needs to actually take its lead from the right
• an awful lot on reason and science isn't that rather left hemisphere of you no it's not
• thinking very well and are completely under the sway of the left hemisphere is people who just outright fundamentalist

Iain McGilchrist on the dangers of "left brain" domination 3,306

• 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

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

• just to separate the divine from so i mean it it the left hemisphere doesn't know what it is it doesn't know
• less insightful less perceptive less intelligent than the left hemisphere and that's what the first 400 pages of my
• self-centered dissatisfied greedy um left hemisphere dominated people we need to find
• getting and grabbing the aims of the left hemisphere we're fulfilled through working together side by side trusting