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

• is that the right hemispheres are anchor and reality it's actually looking at what we're experiencing right now and
• the distinction is fantasy is something that covers up reality and takes one away from it but imagination is one's
• only chance for feeding one's way into reality so
• fantasy is the misuse of imagination to replace reality which is a nice distinction and so and then so one twist
• structure and then there are what you might call the constituents of reality so i look at guess what time i look at
• in some sense presents the global meaningful contextual reality to us and then we break it down into parts and
• to subdue reality what it means is sub do to give everything its proper place in the
• keeping with like the jacob's ladder vision and the idea of subduing reality with with the logos which is how it's
• imagine and the manifestation of the reality that we experience itself because otherwise we
• brings reality into being out of the realm of possibility
• you when you're concerned with finding out the depths of reality then mythos is important that links to what you were
• what this does is it privileges the theory over the reality yes absolutely that's what the post modernists do
• about how life should be have become the reality and this is something you notice in bureaucracies that actually
• maoists they were so insistent that their representation replaced reality that it became criminal to admit that
• people's theory about what the world should be like is now the only reality and if things don't conform to it it's

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

• is damaged and the left hemisphere is trying to construct a reality it also tends to get very angry and very
• on limitation which we put out as the war on reality and it goes further i mean i would very much subscribe to that
• view by the way um that it is a war on reality and what makes that clear is that two important
• dependable it's much more in touch with reality the left hemisphere is the one that jumps to conclusions so when daniel

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

• which broadly speaking one could say is about making better contact with reality itself not just building the maps of the
• people intuitively think this but the reality is different but they're just like optical illusions
• our projections can land on reality and when we feel and they're grounded
• and they're grounded um in reality we feel reality speaking back to us and we know ourselves to be
• suggesting that somehow and we're cut off from reality and all that we see is just a projection on a wall inside our
• doesn't follow that we don't make contact with reality at all and that reality means nothing so i mean in fact
• contact with reality at all and that reality means nothing so i mean in fact that's exactly the point of view
• himself kept a bureaucratic distance from the realities that were going on so getting back to reality is very
• from the realities that were going on so getting back to reality is very important but coming to evil
• useful byproduct what it's really about is how much we connect with reality and the virtues um that enable us to

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

• world indeed i think this idea of relationship and encounters with reality is a very important one which no doubt
• that we are connected to something that has a value and a reality other than our own egocentric preferences and existence
• what i mean by virtue connecting us to reality so rat for me rationality is exactly that capacity
• escaping from the the limitations of reality that's the imaginary okay and it and it sort of maps onto a tolkien meant
• exactly between fantasy that takes us away from reality and imagination which is our only chance to enter into reality
• away from reality and imagination which is our only chance to enter into reality right and there's a and there's a
• and by the way having a process view of reality you'd probably also influenced by
• in the aristotelian sense to the ligaments of reality i think that's the ultimate thing that uh uh i'm trying to
• objectivity is the same one that gets us into finding reality absurd because science is depending on the
• experiences they don't they they think this is the this was the reality and it often has long-term uh changing effects
• peculiar versions unusual versions of reality in the sense of hallucination to delusions anyway come from the left
• when actually reach these deeper realities that i think you're describing as possibly being experienced by people

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

• um the reality of that medieval world and its music and its poetry and so on
• as it is expressing also the little idiosyncratic realities of being in a village in spain or being you know
• of our values as core parts of any reality that we have and examine what it is we're valuing

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

• is the only chance we have to reach reality justin i think you're setting up a quite unnecessary and
• representations of the reality that word representation is important
• technology can't really access the inner reality that it is to be you and that's really what the conversation
• second-class ways of coming into contact with reality perhaps leading us away into fantasy but as i
• is the only chance we have to reach reality it's not a matter of putting fancy dress versions of the world in
• that away so that for the first time we can see reality as it is those of you who know the work of wordsworth and
• of fantasy but that is pointing to a reality can i tell that little joke please yes
• random creation and actually imagination which contacts the reality and brings it to us yes absolutely um i mean and
• um but he created out of love and that's where love becomes a reality and becomes possible

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

• would come up with for saying how do we get to know something about reality how do we get to know anything that's truer
• able to reality is infinitely malleable because of our access to technological prowess
• what people are and and all the rest that that that is the reality whereas in fact it's what is obscuring the reality
• that that that is the reality whereas in fact it's what is obscuring the reality so
• us decide what the reality is to some extent we can't know ultimate truth of course i

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

• above all using our imagination which doesn't take us away from reality but actually is the only possibility we have
• actually is the only possibility we have for getting into reality yeah yeah

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

• theories the maps the diagrams are the reality and all the complexity of the real world disappears
• the reliability of the left hemisphere and the its denial of reality there are three ways in which
• the downside but is much closer to reality so there's that
• evaluate how much the left hemisphere is able to clock reality compared with the right
• quite clear that in the deep structure of reality opposites coincide and so if you're truly aware of things you will
• and anybody else is dreaming they're just not in touch with reality that is an easier case to make than to say
• post-modernism to deny that there's any reality or truth at all which is not my position at all i think it's very

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

• the right hemisphere is a far superior guide to reality delusions and hallucinations are much more frequent
• knows everything the right hemisphere which in reality understands far more is aware of those vast unknowns
• hemisphere tests the left hemisphere's theory about reality against experience but the left hemisphere's vision of a
• hemisphere has already colonized our reality at least for those of us who lead a modern western urban life