Giles P. Croft

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318 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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You Are Not A Frog · The Analytical Brain Trap: Why Smart People Can’t Switch Off · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

It thinks it's what's looking after you, what's keeping you safe, when it's just this little computer thing with a data in, data out model.

It's just running its little algorithms and going, oh, oh, oh, I know, I know, I know what's going on.

And it's like, no, you don't.

I don't know if you've come across Ian McGilchrist's work at all.

Oh, the master and his emissary?

Yeah, yeah.

I think it's probably the biggest, other than my ICD-10 I've got here, I think it's the biggest book I own.

for listeners rather than rather than subjecting yourself to something like a 24 hour long audio book um there's a there's a there's an hour and 20 minute um documentary video version of the master and his emissary called uh the divided brain if you go to the divided brain.com you have to either rent it or buy it off vimeo but it really summarizes the book um perfectly and there's

And there's a line in that documentary where Ian McGilchrist is with a, I think it's a drama group or something, and the guy who's running the drama group asks him, would you summarise the difference between the left and the right hemispheric experiences?

And the guy says, he says, what I like about it is that this right hemispheric consciousness that we're talking about, he says, it's not necessarily knowable.

And Eamon Gilchrist jumps in straight away and he says, it's more than that.

He says, it's necessarily not knowable.

Like, oh my word, because you and I, you know, we can talk about it until the cows come home, but we can only use the tools of the left brain to try and describe something that is not it.

So this right brain consciousness is more real than reality in some ways.

And it's why McGill Chris calls his book The Master and his emissaries because the right brain is the master.

The right brain knows all.

It sees all.

It's connected to the oneness of life.

It's the source of creativity and insight and all the good stuff.

But it can't get involved in the process of separation of objects.

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