What is this?

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

• some others of these what is life for who are we anyway
• or take a look at the face of vladimir putin with power alas of life and death over millions of people and the owner of
• because we have no longer the foggiest idea what a human life is about indeed there's a sense in which we no
• manipulate things to deal with the necessities of life and to build the foundations of a civilization
• reality at least for those of us who lead a modern western urban life it finds a perfect simulacrum of the
• treating diseases you'll be surprised here length of life is not by a million miles as important as the quality of
• miles as important as the quality of that life and we will all die of something one day
• we must focus on quality not quantity of life here again i believe ai could help us but how
• keeping as far as possible out of our daily lives let me explain can't ai help us through freeing time up
• cumulatively to the stress of everyday life and rob it of its feel of connection with another human being as
• that they might as well be machined everyday life has got much worse as machines gradually displace humans
• evil it can only further degrade our idea of what a human life is for and it obviously opens us to totalitarian
• they must come if they come at all as the byproduct of a life well lived among these our wisdom itself followed
• admiration faith and understanding they cannot be willed what makes life worth living is what can only be described as
• possible where there is no freedom no spontaneity no life there is a mighty challenge then ahead

Iain McGilchrist - The Matter With Things Part 1 12,535

• the reader which is about the only short thing i ever wrote in my life it's less than two pages long i say you know
• shelter to provide clothing to provide all the necessities of life we need to manipulate the world and that is the
• the books that i've written later in life because it was then that i was able to follow
• then uh much later in life and 50 years later he was talking to a self-made
• human and this human comes to life and there is there is effectively the ancestor of
• brave who tells his grandson all about life and he put it as follows i thought i'd share this with you and please stop
• so the grandson asks what's the meaning of life and sony says within all of us there's a battle
• way there is only one outcome we will starve ourselves of life and of energy and the civilization will collapse so i
• a very important point and it's one he he went on making all his life but it's it's essential because we do believe
• brain but also uh the holistic approach to life as well so you say importantly what we experience is not just an image
• thought oh my god i hope i didn't have to lead life on a slant and the the surgeon
• which i include in a chapter on the science of life is that

Art, God and Beauty -a conversation with Iain McGilchrist 11,699

• atmosphere i might think sort of red is is life it's it's emotion it's out all those kind of things would that would
• respond quickly to things in medical situations in life and as well as um i mean exactly i mean my you know if
• way the reality that one is facing so in that sense it's also bringing it to life it takes part in the creative process
• in the way that which in which all kinds of images of embodied life horses storms birds come back and back with different

Iain McGilchrist & Nigel McGilchrist on The Greatness of Pythagoras 10,658

• uh stability the inundation of the nile which on which their whole life depended and the flowing of the river in the
• afterlife was so you know the relationship between life and the afterlife
• um life of intellectual activity and
• through mesopotamia even he could even have stayed in samos all his life because that's actually those ideas were
• yamblicus's description of the pythagor teaching of the pythagorean life the student should listen and and and become
• between these wonderful ideas that he seems to have had early in his life when the travels uh you know his fundamental
• um yeah the accusator and the the rules of the life and how it should be but even those are all very you know was
• we're part of a hugely complex texture of repeating lives and existences okay that's about as much as we can say the
• experience your own personal experience and and we know in life lives there are you know there are problems that we
• you know there are problems that we don't resolve in our lives which come again and again and represent
• constellations of of situations in our lives which seem to come from somewhere somewhere that's not just within our own
• somewhere that's not just within our own experience in this life and you know i mean transmigration helps us to
• the buddha because in the um 200 years between the time life of the buddha and uh the arrival of
• and you say in our lives there may occur moments when an aspect of divine cosmos appears
• felt this unmistakable push of harmonia at some time or times in their life will find it more difficult to understand
• listening to us maybe so kindly i've had some experience maybe once in their life or a hundred times who knows but there
• remember when pythagoras came into my life i don't really know i can't i'm in my memories bad anyway but i can't
• you remember happening that that was life-changing in this way no because i don't think it needs to be
• no because i don't think it needs to be um well it is life-changing in a way no i mean i while i was writing the book it
• other hand it's interesting it's happened at other moments in life as well and i don't know what happened some

Can we unmake the world we have made? Iain McGilchrist 9,941

• can recapture that child of so much of their life is to do with rules observations everything you do on the
• can just take it in the sense of the life in one you know one's vitality which is after all terribly important

Personal Reflections on a Sacred Text - Iain McGilchrist and Shira Nayman 9,769

• read prayers and all my life i've had certain prayers that are sort of favorite prayers
• iron gates but i'd never set foot in it in my life and it was rumored to be a very strange place a sort of
• these case histories these case studies of individuals who came to life on the page and here was the answer to the way
• psychiatry where the mind and the body really meet in people's lives this is the only way to approach it
• of the sort of formative um experiences of my life i mean it stands out uh amongst only a handful of
• informative by which i think you did spiritual experiences of your life because i'm sure there have been other
• but it was riveting life transforming life enhancing enriching i don't know the
• there's only choice this has happened to me in my life but twice i've been into a church
• cantus firmness to which the other melodies of life provide the counterpoint
• utmost of its limits only a polyphony of this kind can give life a wholeness and assure us that nothing can go wrong so
• remarkable i mean he he rests his life repeatedly and so did members of his family
• small slice of time but at that period in your life this may sound like a gleamingly obvious
• question but um at that point in your life what why do you think it spoke to you so profoundly
• things were much worse sort of artistic and spiritual life while they were running off their son is
• so rich so as long as that is the strand that is keeping the life flowing then it it is not important and he he quoted
• some people and i myself at times in life definitely have needed medication it's been an absolute saving for me
• can change the fact the quality of your entire life your entire life yes exactly yes yes i mean i feel i have a
• the love of god and the joy of god and of this life more than ever before in his deepest suffering and despair and
• some of the suffering that i have had in life and some of it you can't wage suffering
• you're very depressed that i never wish to visit again in my life um but that these things have been
• a small way of saying that resistance is part of life and i believe profoundly in this
• helps you deal with it and you might say yes well there is no life without suffering how can there be likely you
• just have to look at nature there's no life without the line gravity of the gear and killing it you know so there is
• yes the very fulcrum of it that's giving life it's tremendous suffering it comes to the baby as well yes
• because i can't any more than anybody else nobody will ever in this life anyway get to understand this
• past and seeing the ocean near where he lives he's just so struck by the the fact that the central
• fact that the central the central condition of life is that of yearning and he's just so deeply aware
• yearning and he's just so deeply aware that all of life seems to be that what's most meaningful and important in life
• that all of life seems to be that what's most meaningful and important in life seems to be learning and he's yearning
• seems to be learning and he's yearning now for the life that he's about to lose and very beautifully stand with a lot of
• gratitude for what he's had and for the life he's had but um i wanted to say that um
• trace some of these the reality cracks of their lives and found that they'd never even seen images
• this saying that he had was that just as in life we are surrounded by death so in the life of the mind we are surrounded
• in life we are surrounded by death so in the life of the mind we are surrounded by madness
• had a long very fruitful and complex life lots of ups and downs and learning
• suffering as he demonstrated through his life so i just wanted to say that that is what is meant by redemption to me not
• taken up into the fulfillment in the life of the plant and i see our lives are like that that they have stages they

Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversation 8,623

• to walk and speak and swim and dance and do all the normal movements of life i'm just talking about a coordination here
• connection and people can lead a reasonably normal life almost impossible really so if casually
• was done in somebody who've had a long-ish life and had got used to the coordination of
• some kind of victorian design doesn't it preparing people for life in an industrial society and one thing is to
• be changing its mind about everything all the time so as everything in life is a matter of balancing things and coming
• you've got tenure as he has then you've got it for life and two you can do what he likes you know he's in the uniquely
• found that i mean largely being in the mainstream rest of my life has impeded me and because i was you know i was a
• it should be kept you've got these to very much their private life you've got to have two pieces yeah that's right
• administrative or bureaucratic mind over almost every aspect of our lives and i think this is deeply damaging and
• wonderful but i didn't realize until much later in my life why it had been so important and i'm not sure that even i
• published a paper and all that but i was free of that and and later in life i thought well what did i make of that and
• to them otherwise it's the death of the life of the mind and it's for this reason that so many as we both know in
• train to develop a skill which which is a very life enhancing thing and useful to society yes there's not enough
• therefore just waiting to get back into this horrible machine there was life outside the machine there are other

The dawn of consciousness | Iain McGilchrist, Donald Hoffman, Eva Jablonka, Michelle Montague 8,268

• is saying that just like the way we understand life will understand consciousness others of course the rest
• that consciousness is 100 physical like life is physical would that affect your approach to humanities
• because i am a scientist and i've benefited from it all my life but it can't answer all our questions this is

A revolution in attention: perceptual awakening in Iain McGilchrist’s work by Dr Mark Vernon 7,280

• i'm a great sort of mapper of inner life both in a life of the human psyche but in a life
• sort of mapper of inner life both in a life of the human psyche but in a life of the cosmic mind as well and ian
• like um it's maybe reached its goal in life but there's a sort of nagging creeping
• of moral law the idea that morality in its legalistic sense wastes life and so this instability in beulah though it can
• fronting the four cardinal points going forward forward it's saying yes to life it's expansive nothing is hindered here
• binds to himself the joy does the winged life destroy but he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
• life destroy but he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise one could spend a whole lifetime trying
• bunch of individuals who spoke during their mortal lives very brightly about divine things but what's so fascinating
• beatrice see is that these individuals disagreed with one another in life and in particular there's two characters
• avaros philosophy and in life in mortal life um thomas aquinas had actually declared
• in order to appreciate more and more of the divine life and it's why at the end of the divine
• were thrown onto ourselves and in the very lack of life fear we've got to make something of life again and i put it to
• very lack of life fear we've got to make something of life again and i put it to you that ian's work itself is very much
• rediscover and align and know this vision showing up in our lives so that all sorts of unseen potentials and
• looking you're probably just caught by the scientistic in our life and times so blake says
• um he sees in it the splendor of the divine life hence the company of the heavenly host
• possibilities in order to dynamically move through life and plato's famous trinity was the good the beautiful and
• um the suffering can be born so too when you know that the story of life is accommodating the tragic can find its
• the origin and beginning as well as the end and the telos of our life learning to trust that once more i think
• as well loving the infinite the eternal knowing that life is a comedy that can embrace and make sense of the tragedy
• moments and i know things that have happened in my life that i felt absolutely convinced at the time that
• not allowed near the river without his faded orange life jacket on one sunday afternoon
• but it's so consistent with my subsequent life and the direction that everything took
• really i create open spaces i always say that um life is is is is it comes to us if we create the space for it if we keep
• bad in my case you reintegrate into my life certain spiritual practices such as um prayer and little words and sayings
• which can be seen as the universal inspiration and i have a whole life since childhood i have lived that life
• inspiration and i have a whole life since childhood i have lived that life so all my time it's always been

Conversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist 6,216

• want all the way up the scale to human uh human life and so on and and the other thing maybe i'll start with the
• um i'm going to talk to you within an inch of your life but never mind later you won't know anything about him
• to you and told you cannot be taken forward in your life then that's also hugely diminished in in value so uh
• want to be gone make the other guy gone i have a fight my life is funny all he does is go to work all day you have him
• but what what do you think is you know sort of the life lessons here what what's the what what does this mean for
• mountain now if you take that as a matter for the way we experience life in the world we can see many many different
• but are not rational at all if you think about the whole business of human life so what i'm what i'm really saying is
• and the answer is i think it can radically change people's lives and not to um appear to be
• your book has had a total impact on the way i think about things my life is better my work is better my marriage is
• know so you know people looking for meaning in their in their life and things also yeah and in fact with with a