Iain McGilchrist - What is our culture preventing us from seeing?
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Iain McGilchrist is a rare polymath who draws on his background in literature, philosophy, medicine and the sciences to make a profound argument that the kind of attention we pay to the world determines not only the kind of people we become, but also the world we create. He argues that the brains left hemisphere has a disenchanted and mechanical view of the world, and it is this that has come to dominate the Western World. A consequence of this is that we've lost a sense of the sacred, of belonging, and of the reality of the values of truth, beauty and goodness.
In this episode we discuss what it is about life that we might be missing through the way we are paying attention. The conversation is wide ranging, exploring the brain hemispheres, the reality of values, and indeed the purpose of life in the universe.
Further videos of Iain's interviews and talks can be found @DrIainMcGilchrist
It sounds like I'm eavesdropping from the next room with the door cracked. It has a very interesting effect. Like I want to listen even closer
Lmao
Find yourself a career in sound engineering. U have a room next door ear for It 👍🔥🙏😂
With headphones the audio is wonderful
What are you doing up? Go back to bed!
Wonderful conversation. (Just flagging that there's a shortish section that's apparently repeated within the first 20 mins or so.)
I hear just fine. Thank you both and all those who have Dr. Iian McGilchrist's books and who speaks with him to connecting us all with "we."
🙏♥️🌎🌍🌏🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵💫✨️💫
What I hear when he is talking is form follows function. In the sense of meaning and it's application is primary and substantial. The form is merely a utilitarian description. One is vital, the other is helpful.
Its curious the interviewer struggles to find rapport, despite being given in-person access to Dr Iain. In another interview (by zoom) i watched today, the interviewer had read Dr Iain's entire two books including the footnotes -- almost a million words. From that, he identified a keystone rhythm "thisness" of Dr Iain's thesis...and structured his entire presentation around it. He added to, not stood outside of Dr Iains life work. This young man brings a college student perspective to the Wise Old Mentor. Fortunately the two of them warm up as the interview unfolds.
In regards to Dr Iains critics, in my ear they sound like the 60s Top Tune "Its my Birthday and I will Cry if I Want To."
Amazing interview and questions; I enjoyed the sound, it was as if I was in the room with you guys, I enjoyed Iain's creaking chair. I'm currently reading The Matter with Things and I often watch Iain talk. His work ought to transform society.
Sound not good but an absolutely incredible conversation ❤🙏☘️🦘
The sound is just great to me. Curious!
The problem with utilising the right hemisphere for extracting meaning from experiences, it can be too subjective or imaginative, created and perspective rather than naturally real and we can end up with too many realities as the right hemisphere can be perceptive of hypnotic illusions.
it's not a question of left only or right only. It is both. Connected.
It is the left hemisphere who engage in delusions not the right hemisphere. Read his book master and emissary.
Iain is the wonderful
work on the sound quality next time.
Such a shame with the audio being too low.
its good enough tho
Can't hear it. Buy some decent equipment please.
It’s probably not the equipment but more how it’s being used… too many “bright” surfaces in the room.
I recall the onset of deconstruction of art by academic criticism when i went to college. It sucked the life out of what I loved, anatomical sculpture of the past two millenia. Now nihilism has brought us to abandonment of our own democracy, climatic catastrophe, poisoning the ocean that feeds us and mining the sea bottom of metals that oxygenate our planet--for the personal profit of oligarchs selling electric cars. Dr Iain lets me see that through union of the opposites, we have the possibility to bring on the economic revolution needed to save humanity and planet earth. Thank Atum for the Cult of Trump, his MAGA judges, corporate media and oligarchs who don't want to pay their fair share of taxes.
I remember hearing somebody warning about the female shadow i think it was Maria von France
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@@scrupulousscruples indeed the very one, seems them early jungians were on to something🙏
Yes, there is positive and negative anima archetypes. There are also positive and negative animus archetypes.
Thank you for posting this, great stuff. Does anyone have a source for the quote (at 10:42) that over 80% of young people think their life is meaningless. Is that a UK statistic or a worldwide one?
Sound is terrible!
The audio sucks!
9:20 Déjà vu of 3:13
DNA is a cymatic encoding scheme. As in, protein assembly self-organizes morphology based on genetic data, and the data is designed for that later self-organization. That's why it looks like there couldn't possibly be enough data in the genome :)
9:05 did we just loop back around to begin again?
2:58 here's where I heard that first
Once for each hemisphere? ;)
15:12 end of overlap
15:13 "never has humanity known so much, but understood so little"... diving into the diversity of language for these different levels, and, largely, the absence of these distinctions in English in Silicon Valley
18:00 18:08 inter-ledgery - "to read between"
Why is culture in trouble, cos all the girls are online looking for love and the lads are on line playing war.
All is fair in love and war
53:00 Here comes the God of the Gaps.
Way to go completely left hemisphere, LOL
@@Obilio222 Said every new-agey fan before science filled the gap.
what an obnoxious and deeply ignorant comment. If you had actually read his books you'd realise how embarrassing your comments are. There is a 100+ page chapter in his latest book called The Sense Of The Sacred...does that sound like a "god of the gaps" argument to you?
What our culture prevents us from seeing is entwined truths and falsehoods inherent in descriptive words associated associated with Sight, as we overvalue the abstract sense-of-reality required to create the consensus-reality of interpersonal communication and cooperation. Lacking the Socratic method of self-cross-examination we see disguised in the experiential wisdom of Plato’s dialogues, we use the left hemisphere to grasp terms of description and unwittingly conflate description with definition 'as-if' is human nature and our autobiographical memory sense-of-self and reality is a true understanding of reality.
What I find frustrating about Iain's articulation of his hypothetical sense of the unseen and largely unfelt reality of his brain, is a failure to show the interviewer 'how' he functions in this left-right way, in the 'here-now' reality of being-in-time. Hence the comment about pseudo wisdom, I suspect?
It's amusing that, for a dude who gripes so much about postmodernist philosophers, he often parrots one of their key positions on language, namely that language doesn't communicate at all; this is rubbish because we communicate all the time; but McGilchrist goes one step further and posits that language oughtn't to be explicit. Even more amusing is that he wrote a massive book and has granted countless hours of interviews in which he uses words to communicate his idea that language is at its best when it's implicit. This self-defeating contradiction was one of the many points postmodernism's detractors made in the 1980s.
Maybe you should read his massive book ;)
@@ideletgijsbertsen9279 Why? Isn't Iain a big defender of intuitive knowledge instead of reason? Intuiting stuff from soundbytes is exactly the world of tomorrow he craves. Otherwise, he wouldn't have filmed more hours of footage than his big book read aloud.
@@KL0098 ...because that's the only logical conclusion to draw from Iain conducting so many interviews...wrongly intuiting things from soundbites is your expertise, clearly... good grief what on earth is wrong with you?
That's one of the most laughably stupid conclusions I've ever heard drawn from Iain's work 🤣
@@samparkes2477yes, clearly neither party have read his books nor listened to the quantity of Ian’s interviews which weigh so heavily on “their” claims…
Pseudo wisdom. Endless platitudes. All said many times before, many times better.
Indeed, it gives me vibes of Bertrand Russel exposing Bergson's nonsense.