Alex O'Connor

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2,073 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 25 May

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Alex O’Connor: #1 Shift That Stops Endless Overthinking (FINALLY Get Unstuck) · 25 May 2026 podcast

But then the deontologist would say that that would upset their rights.

And then, well, if you're a Christian, maybe we should... And then they just die, right?

Because you're spending too much time sort of going back and forth.

I don't think that's how people actually behave.

And I think there's some neurological evidence for this to do with...

the two hemispheres of your brain, which is another thing I'm fascinated by.

I think the most significant fact perhaps in the world is that your brain is divided into two hemispheres.

Because if you are essentially your brain, which, okay, I don't think consciousness is the same thing as the brain, but they're clearly connected, right?

And the thing that at least gives you selfhood, I don't think it produces consciousness just to be crystal clear, but I think selfhood, the thing that gives you your unified sense of self is essentially your brain and maybe the rest of your sort of neural system.

And the fact that everywhere we look, every neural system we find, there's some kind of asymmetrical division in the brain.

There's some evolutionarily strong reason to keep two separate hemispheres has to be super significant.

That's like the nature of you, right?

That's your nature.

Your nature is fundamentally lateralized.

Your two hemispheres are kind of involved in different ways of thinking.

It's never quite as simple as people think.

I mean, Ian McGilchrist is the person to read on this.

In culture, it's like the right brain is creative and intuitive and the left brain is mathsy and rational.

It's not as simple as that.

McGilchrist likes to say that the two hemispheres sort of attend to the world in different ways.

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