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Just published my first Substack today, and I’m excited to share it with you! It’s also available on my blog. It’s a short read, about 5 minutes long, and there’s even an audio version

Today’s post is called “Left Brain, Right Brain, Who’s the Master?” It’s a philosophical exploration of how the structure of our brains might explain the current crisis in American politics, and what we can do about it. I hope you’ll take a look and let me know what you think!

#brain #psychology #neurology #McGilchrist #trump #musk #doge #project2025 #leftbrain #rightbrain #thiel #renegirard #scapegoat #politics
https://neurodoctor.com/2025/03/23/left-brain-right-brain-whos-the-master/ t

I appreciate Michael Corballis's disapproval of Iain McGilchrist's theories for going beyond neurological facts and making generalizations that are breathtaking in their sweep.

#cognitiveneuroscience #brains #science #neurology #pseudoscience #psychology #Corballis vs #McGilchrist

“Increasingly, I'm caught up in conversations with people all around the world about philosophical issues. I love it, I absolutely love it! But when you ask me to evaluate, is this a good thing? Or should I really be saying, what do I know? And just accepting the gift of life and its beauty in a generous spirit. I don't know, but I can't help myself. Ideas have always been the driver of my life. And so I love to talk about them, as I guess you can see.”
—Iain McGilchrist
https://youtu.be/Q9sBKCd2HD0?feature=shared&t=6487
#iainmchilchrist #mcgilchrist #philosophy #metaphysics

A Divided Brain & An Addicted World

Dr Iain McGilchrist

https://youtu.be/e90hUwFvB94?si=Ffgczu3o-EpbqXEp

Apprehend the Comprehensible!

#McGilchrist #Addiction #Evolution #Society #Brain #Context #Predicament

Gammal video, men Iain McGilchrist studerar fortfarande hur vår "kluvna hjärna" på djupet påverkar mänskligt beteende, vår kultur och vårt samhälle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFs9WO2B8uI

#McGilchrist #brain

"There are mechanisms in a complex system, but... biology is having to at least sophisticate it and move on from there."
https://youtu.be/YGCYDw9-yDQ?t=2532
#iainmcgilchrist #mcgilchrist #complexity #biology

"There's something very exciting happening now, and it feels to me like physics in about 1910. (Biology is, you know, 100 and bit years later catching up.) Physics was all supposed to have been completed by 1900. Then suddenly the carpet is pulled right out from under their feet, and they still don't quite know what it is they're dealing with. I think the same thing is happening in biology..."
https://youtu.be/YGCYDw9-yDQ?t=1930
#iainmcgilchrist #mcgilchrist #biology #physics

"There is a distinct difference between the modus operandi of the left hemisphere and the right. Left hemisphere procedures are highly computable. AI is really a way of pushing out the left hemisphere's mode of thinking into the environment. But what the right hemisphere does is strictly non-computable because it has no points of certainty in it. A computer needs at least one or two reference points with which to begin working, but in essence there is nothing but experience, either the experience of the cell, or the plant, or the root, or the whatever it is, and so it can't be engineered according to principles."
https://youtu.be/YGCYDw9-yDQ?t=1556
#iainmcgilchrist #mcgilchrist #artificialintelligence #ai #computability

So I watched it. I have read the book and seen the George Clooney version, but not the Tarkovsky. Wow! And the movie is so relevant to McGilchrist’s book. #McGilchrist

The right hemisphere sees the world as it is present to us, but not only that, as it presences to us. … And what this means is not passively just being present. ... It implies a process in which this thing comes into being for us. That is how the right hemisphere sees the world, as this world that it is indeed bringing into being.
And the left hemisphere sees only a representation of this after it has been somehow denatured. It has been categorized, abstracted, decontextualized, fragmented, analyzed, and so on. And now it has something which is very useful, which is a map. …
The map is great for guidance while you’re living in the real world, but you need to know which is the real world. And I believe that when the left hemisphere takes over, its theory, its map, its diagram, its version of the world--a very simple-minded one that it has constructed--is suppressing the living reality of the complex, interconnected, vibrant world that we experience.
--Iain McGilchrist
https://youtu.be/HMiC5ma_laY?feature=shared&t=2585
#mcgilchrist #attention #presencing

Now, the problem with paying attention is [that] if you get very used to paying a certain kind of attention, only things that respond to that kind of attention come forward. … So, if you decide that something is a machine, when you look at it, all you see is the mechanical aspects. Everything else recedes. … You become that person who can’t break out of the idea that everything is just a machine. ... I’m not saying there’s no value in comparing things with machines. You can get some truth out of it, but it’s not the only truth. … It’s completely wrong when it comes to organisms.
--Iain McGilchrist
https://youtu.be/HMiC5ma_laY?feature=shared&t=1525
#mcgilchrist #attention #machines #organisms

The attention we pay changes what we see and what we find. And it also changes us, and so does the world with which we interact.
--Iain McGilchrist
https://youtu.be/HMiC5ma_laY?feature=shared&t=1196
#mcgilchrist #attention

The best analogy for this is learning a piece of music...trying to play a piece that you hear… The right hemisphere has a take on it [as a whole], but you then start working on it and the left hemisphere goes…fingering it and playing it again and again. … It helps you understand the music, but when you go out and perform, you must forget that completely. Otherwise, you'll give the most terrible performance, because it’s got to have been taken up organically into the whole.
--Iain McGilchrist #iainmcgilchrist #mcgilchrist #music

The McGilchrist maneuver: …
The left hemisphere is...looking for what it knows and wants, but new experiences are best first appreciated in the right hemisphere. … New experience is taken by the right as a whole, it then is processed...by the left—which says, oh I see it’s one of those, oh I can break it up into bits, and so on. … Crucially, it has to be taken back to the whole again by the right hemisphere.
--Iain McGilchrist
https://youtu.be/gPlCTRbgDMk?feature=shared&t=806
#iainmcgilchrist #mcgilchrist

I just want to say something about limit cases being inverted.
This is my view of reality that:
stasis is the limit case of motion…
representation is the limit case of what is actually real…
independence is the limit case of interdependence…
discontinuity is the limit case of the continuous…
the...implicit the limit case of the explicit...
the literal is the limit case of the metaphorical...
randomness is the limit case of order...
simplicity is a limit case of complexity...
the determinate is the limit of the indeterminate..., and
straight lines are the limit case of curves.
--Iain McGilchrist https://youtu.be/c_AGejpKZyM?feature=shared&t=2123
#iainmcgilchrist #mcgilchrist

…matter is part of the process of creative resistance within the flow that precipitates individual phenomena into existence, for a while.
—Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things #mcgilchrist #matter

”When we encounter what is real and what is true as viewed by both hemispheres [of the brain], it very rarely takes a binary either/or form, but nor is it simply both/and. […] the claim is that when we are considering reality in its fullness it invariably has the quality of both/and (RH) to either/or (LH) and back to both/and(now including either/or) (RH).” —Jonathan Rowson #mcgilchrist

”Iain [McGilchrist] uses […] the partial validity of both hemispheres [of the brain] but the relative trustworthiness of the RH [right hemisphere] perspective as a premise to make progress in philosophy, both in epistemology (the study of how we know) and metaphysics (the study of the nature of reality).” —Jonathan Rowson #mcgilchrist #philosophy

“The McGilchrist manoeuvre refers to […] the presencing of a particular lived context (right hemisphere) to the re-presentation of that context into elements for analysis (left hemisphere) and then back into a perception of context that is changed by the hemispheric interaction (the right hemisphere’s initial perception of context is enriched and enhanced by the left hemisphere’s analysis and includes but transcends it).” —Jonathan Rowson https://jonathanrowson.substack.com/p/introducing-the-mcgilchrist-manoeuvre #mcgilchrist

”…there is no reason to dub our full experience of the world an illusion, while ascribing to the very partial mathematical description of the world the reality.”
—Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World #mcgilchrist

#McGilchrist

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