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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Science is is patient
Attention to things as they are.
Which means actually seeing them in context and this was very much the way the spirit in science
from Bacon through to Goethe.
But there is another strand in which it's become
in a way decontextualised and dehumanised, which is a mistake in my view.
I although I I you know you say I give the left hemisphere too much flack and in a in a way of course you're absolutely right.
This I'm trying to redress a balance, as I keep saying in the book.
I mean nobody needs telling that, you know, rationality is important, it's bloody obvious really.
Um
And i nobody needs uh telling that the capacity to create um sequential reasoning is is a very important feature of the human mind.
But I think because it is so eloquent on its own behalf, it's n neglected to allow us to perceive that there are other very important things that need to be combined with it and that's really the message.
It's not that somehow the right hemisphere has got it all right and the left hemisphere's got it all wrong.
And that's another either or black and white misconception which is much more typical of the left hemisphere's take on the world.
The right hemisphere's take is broadly inclusive.
As in the metaphor, the master knows that he needs the emissary.
It's the emissary that thinks it doesn't need the master.
So uh my view is the right hemist is perfectly aware that it
The symbiotic relationship.
And when that works well, as it has done in periods in the West, it's a recipe that can't be beaten.
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