Ian McGilchrist
speaker
553 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2010
last heard Jan 2011
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That's the right
That's the right hemisphere and one sees oneself in relation to it.
Whereas the left hemisphere takes a very detached and precise view of something that we already know is important.
Now, if you put that sort of information together, you end up putting together a lot of little pieces of information and
sense of what something is from the mind that is able to take a much broader view.
let rip slightly in that phrase.
Um
There's a limit of course to how helpful it is to anthropomorphise uh the hemispheres.
On the other hand I would say there's no obvious reason why comparing them to human beings.
After all each hemisphere is perfectly capable of
Of sustaining consciousness for a human being.
Is there reason why then that should be a worse metaphor than the machine metaphor?
Well I think it probably begins, at least my understanding of it, is that it I can see it in the ancient world and there's a similar progression actually in ancient Greece
in ancient Rome and indeed from the Renaissance onwards in our own world.
And that is that for reasons that are complex and one can only speculate about, there appears to have been
A quite sudden
shift and efflorescence of activities that are characteristic of both
the best of the right hemisphere and the best of the left hemisphere working together in the sixth century B C in Athens.
And so you get a culture which is enormously productive.
across the whole field of humanities and science.
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