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

• uh compelled on us as people seem to think by science or by reason uh
• to exchange linguistic ideas and the power of our science and so you think maybe that as we've progressed over the
• uh go down when we're trying to understand the world like science reason intuition and imagination
• and they are effectively science reason intuition and imagination um science and reason i don't think many
• science reason intuition and imagination um science and reason i don't think many people would quarrel with
• so i i look at science as having peculiar strengths which are incredibly important
• really needs to say this is not an area on which science can really pronounce and and so i look at the strengths and
• rationality and imagination and intuition and science and what about the third part well yes just before going
• that that was actually the right way to do it to follow the science let's say but the problem with that is that
• should be skeptical about our reasoning we should be skeptical about science science is a skeptical undertaking but
• we should be skeptical about science science is a skeptical undertaking but so there's nothing wrong with being
• show their limitations and i um i hope wave a flag for better science and better reason there's nothing
• and better reason there's nothing at all wrong with science and reason in themselves the problem nowadays is that
• themselves the problem nowadays is that science is not scientific enough and our reasoning is not reasonable enough
• reasoning is not reasonable enough that the science i think the point there is that um it has dogma science has at
• that the science i think the point there is that um it has dogma science has at the moment a number of dogmas we're due
• on that too one of the weird things about the way science is scientific science are educated scientists are
• about the way science is scientific science are educated scientists are educated especially to write scientific
• educated especially to write scientific papers and to think about sciences we think a lot about the method and we
• um you're absolutely right that most of the great discoveries in science and maths were made intuitively through
• mind for a lot of the rather plotting early work in science and reason so what i what i want to be able to say here
• is that there's no conflict between science reason imagination and intuition in good science they all work together
• science reason imagination and intuition in good science they all work together in good reason they all work together in
• nonetheless importantly in reason and science it is the right hemisphere's contribution that is a really important
• a religious system is a set of science-like propositions about the world and its description when in fact
• understand what it is we're dealing with science has its own myths and narratives that's the interesting thing a lot of
• scientists think that there are known myths and narratives in science but if you think that there isn't one you have
• espoused the myth and the narrative of a science that always makes progress and in which
• model that is espoused by those people who think there is no model in science right well you know one of the things
• yes so and that's not a within science presumption right that's that's what you
• i read jung's work on alchemy in particular that science was necessarily embedded inside a narrative tradition
• i'm concerned and then the next thing is that it's clearly the case that science is embedded in a redemptive enterprise
• because part of the enlightenment uh ethos that motivated science and scientists was the notion that if we
• really important point to make um anyway i think the science points in that well i think the science points in that
• i think the science points in that well i think the science points in that direction too ian so yes that's another

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• at least it's opposite uh science and reason and though
• there are proper limits to what science can answer the proper limits to what reason can achieve
• civilization this is one these two parts of science and reason are two very important ways by which we can
• and you know you get people now saying that science is is in some way a tyranny that reason is a tyranny that
• great divide between science and reason on the one hand and intuition and imagination
• they work together and the divide is between those who mechanize science and reason and mechanize our imagination
• that freedom there will be less and less creative thought coming out and science has become

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• again in the book i talk about the strengths and weaknesses of science and as somebody who relies very heavily
• and as somebody who relies very heavily on science knowing enough about the strengths and the weaknesses of science
• on science knowing enough about the strengths and the weaknesses of science is very important to me
• some of the weaknesses come from the institution of science itself but one of the problems is as you say
• in psychology is not not one of the harder things in science to to find

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

• the description john verviki is a professor of cognitive science at the university of toronto my former home
• brilliant.org toe if you're interested in learning math and physics and science so brilliant is a place that you go to
• everything except how we generate science and the meaning that makes truth possible and how science itself could
• science and the meaning that makes truth possible and how science itself could possibly exist as a real entity within
• the ontology of that world of you and so we and our science actually have no proper home in that worldview and so the
• proper home in that worldview and so the science can't provide the home for the ecology of practices the religions are
• is being given prominence by four e-cognitive science and meaning is such a real transgender relation it's not a
• danger in our time and also neither do i have anything to say against science science is hugely important and i'm very
• have anything to say against science science is hugely important and i'm very worried by the attacks on science for
• science is hugely important and i'm very worried by the attacks on science for purely political reasons science is once
• worried by the attacks on science for purely political reasons science is once we lose our anchors in reason and
• we lose our anchors in reason and science we're totally lost but also if we only have reason and science we're
• science we're totally lost but also if we only have reason and science we're lost they need to be mixed with properly
• you i hear you saying i agree with you i'm a scientist i love science and i think people who don't practice science
• i'm a scientist i love science and i think people who don't practice science should not uh recommend its eradication
• world and in in brief i did i conclude that we need each of science reason intuition and imagination not just one
• we've got a war on between them and and other people who reject science and reject reason and i i don't wish to
• integration is also has to be in deep and good faith dialogue with science especially uh the the cognitive sciences
• and good faith dialogue with science especially uh the the cognitive sciences because those are what i would call
• because those are what i would call cognitive science because those are the ones directed towards helping us
• system is working properly according to the science is not a good way to improve the life of a plug so there's a certain
• into finding reality absurd because science is depending on the intelligibility
• of thought or do you do do you do a lot of science yeah firstly just to clarify for the record i don't know if what he's
• malfunction of course it can everything can malfunction science can malfunction math was on this crazy thing where they
• important and it's the belief that either science or reason will lead us to the same infallible conclusion all of us
• naive dangerous deluded but not that we should honor science and reason we should we should also honor
• um independent lines of research are valued in science because the chances that they have been produced by bias

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• what we mean when we say oh i understand that including in science so when people say they understand something i think
• is very scientific there's a there's a there's a very precise science to crystallizing an expression
• know the developments in cognitive science and the way in which people are seeing the limits of definitions and are
• the apathetic path is the path that is taken by science itself science can never say this is the case it can only
• the way it's presented in the in popular world it's always about you know science says this and you know so now we follow

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

• be talking about brain science consciousness and ultimately god as well
• you started off really as you were telling us earlier in science and neuroscience specifically what was your
• perspective on that is that we need to be very clear on what the science tells us and where we make a leap and start to
• make a philosophical and worldview statement that the science doesn't uh get you to
• get you to so the science gets us to connection um there is a connection
• brain are connected that is where the science gets us to but the science doesn't say anything about the nature of
• where suddenly we've moved out of the realm of science scientific methodology and inference into
• the one that is favored by modern science seems to be the least likely which is that the brain gives rise to
• i think niels bohr was it or max planck said that science moves forward a funeral by female at a time yes yeah
• think about it is that there will always be questions that science can't answer and was never intended to answer

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• about how these various strands philosophy science and laterally physics although i'm no
• sway of one of them so in the middle of the book i look at science reason intuition and imagination as
• mind can make itself felt and interestingly in science although there's a lot of very plodding

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• um you know how can the world inform the science you know again it's this reciprocity yeah
• and and uh you know i i hope we can talk a little bit about about science um but but but first you know i i think
• um you know uh science is an art and i'm really lucky to be able to work with an artist
• that's that's a nutshell i so much agree um that science is an art um and
• what we're doing when we're doing science to come back to your idea that it is an art
• is embracing the limitations of science embracing um
• um this limitation in science but especially
• that i do um i do say there are limits to science and it seems to me so
• the world but i see myself as a great champion of science and sometimes it falls to somebody who really believes in
• falls to somebody who really believes in science to be the one to say but certain rather absurd extravagant claims made on
• rather absurd extravagant claims made on behalf of science don't actually honor science they in a way lead us to
• behalf of science don't actually honor science they in a way lead us to disrespect science so i'm i'm a guardian
• honor science they in a way lead us to disrespect science so i'm i'm a guardian of that i one of the things that worries
• help being aware of this who are propagandizing against science you were saying that science can't be wrong if it
• propagandizing against science you were saying that science can't be wrong if it tells us things we don't like and this
• say or do anything so what do we use and one of the things we use is science so i think it's it's an enormously invaluable
• honorable scientist who has done good science which i thoroughly believe in but has also seen like i believe all
• are things that are always going to be beyond science to determine because we have other ways of determining them
• informed opinions um you know a lot i i love science um and i
• by um by looking at the science and
• um in in realizing that you know that doesn't mean the science is wrong i mean it's it's true i mean just in my own
• book a report by who on dealing with uh on coastal sciences in africa a cause of blindness in children and and in adults
• make the whole left hemisphere fashion we start with the whole and science identifies bits and then thinks oh what
• know music is getting back to the idea of science you know i i really do believe that you know music is i mean
• and the whole reason for doing the science is you didn't know what you were going to find exactly and you know there
• encouraged these days at all um sadly and and that diminishes science so there's probably something in the
• scientists that um science had a golden age if you like in the first half of the 20th century
• um you know that i think that the better we we we can perform our science but um you know i think that this
• the data moreover you need to do something else that science often abhors um which is
• um which is i i believe that science is a deeply personal
• um because you know it it's done by humans science is done by humans and and we we can't we can't forget that and
• most of the great insights in the history of science were made by people often on the kitchen table or in the
• garden or whatever really this is this is the history of science to a very large extent so they will anyway

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• thinking so i'm a believer in science i am a scientist it's always been a passion of
• [laughter] it's full of science it's full of reasoning
• but excuse me i have nothing against science or against reasoning and it's also a huge mistake to think that the
• also a huge mistake to think that the left hemisphere represents science and maths and the right hemisphere the arts
• and in fact the most valuable part of science and particularly maths is based in the right hemisphere so they each
• interests in in arts in poetry and so say but with philosophy and science thank you
• and honoring uh the the poetry and and honoring uh the true science so uh otherwise i mean we are speaking here

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• after the miraculous outpouring of creativity in the arts science society and philosophy that we call the