Ian McGilchrist
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553 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2010
last heard Jan 2011
Ian McGilchrist’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thank you very much.
Yes, I don't think it was really that I was turning to the brain for an explanation of those social changes, the changes in our culture and the structure of our civilization even, but in fact that whole perspective that there's a greater reality by accounting for things at the brain level is one that I would
Be skeptical of
Instead it's more trying to suggest that
There are two broad takes on the world, if you like.
And that what I learnt about
differences between the hemispheres suggests that these actually underwrite two competing ways of being in the world and thinking about the world, uh only one of which we seem capable of entertaining these days.
That's right.
That my idea is that the world is something
That isn't exactly given before we experience it, but also isn't just something
our brains or minds make up.
It's a coming together of whatever it is outside of us.
Wi with our minds and that in the process of the two meeting there's a sort of what I call betweenness which brings things into being.
And depending on which mode of attention we bring to bear on the world, a different sort of world will come into being.
Yes, it's very loosely based on a little story in Nietzsche about a a wise spiritual master who who is the head of a small community which flourishes under his
care and become and grows incise to the point where he can't actually look after it all himself, so he needs to have an emissary that he trusts.
And his most trusted and gifted emissary is sent off to get on with business in the further flung parts of the domain.
And w I think an important point is that the master realises he he can't actually get involved with that and can't know those things.
In fact
not only can't but shouldn't know what's going on there, he must deputise that to the emissary, otherwise it would jeopardise what he's able to do.
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