Ian McGilchrist

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553 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2010 last heard Jan 2011

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So i and then the the individual who has previously said this can't be right says, Well that's what it says on this bit of paper.

The right hemisphere, on the other hand, cries out this can't possibly be right.

I know from experience this this isn't correct.

And and that's much closer to the position that we adopt actually when we've got both our hemispheres

Working.

And that's how we detect that this is most probably not right.

Yeah, I think it is more than a metaphor in that it's at least my very real

conception, concern about the way our culture in the West is heading.

And I think it's shared by a lot of people.

Which is that it's a rationalistic rather than reasoned

Oh reasonable.

and mechanistic model of who we are and of the world that we inhabit, which is based on a relationship of exploitation

the the left hemisphere is is there to help us use and manipulate the world.

has come to displace a a a sense of ourselves as in connection with the world and um playing an important reciprocal

row with one another and with the the planet on which we live.

So I think it it has a very real meaning for where we're heading now.

Both in terms of the

Increasing abstraction bureaucratization and technicalizing.

of our lives and a sort of paranoia in which we can't trust one another any more and have to monitor absolutely everything.

versus um, you know, a a a richer and more interconnected sort of vision of the world.

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