Ian McGilchrist

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All In The Mind · The Master and his Emissary: the divided brain and the reshaping of Western civilisation. · 8 Jan 2011 podcast

But as time passes, and by the time the fourth century BC comes along

Already there is a drift towards a more theoretical and conceptualised, abstracted bureaucratic

sort of view of of the world.

And so there's a tendency for things to move further and further towards the left hemisphere's conception.

This happens again in ancient Rome.

In the Augustine era there's a brief period when I see the best of the right hemisphere, the best of what the left hemisphere offers.

together, producing an enormously rich

mix which generates what we think of as the bequest of classical Roman

culture to our civilisation.

But uh again within a couple of hundred years things have drifted.

towards a more unwieldy and bureaucratic, power hungry, militarised, very hierarchical structure.

Which you sort of describe

Well, I I think it it's an inevitable process, um, which because of the relationship between

The worlds at the right and the left hemisphere.

produce that that when the left hemisphere

is allowed to conceive the world

relatively independently from the right hemisphere, which is initially something rather wonderful, w as long as it's in conjunction with what the right hemisphere gives.

Aaron Powell

what each of them in a specialized way produces, working together.

But the right hemisphere contribution seems to decrease and the left hemisphere gains in confidence through its view, which one can see in aspects of Plato's philosophy, that he can account for everything in certain wa you find Plato eventually saying that astronomy is done by looking inwards, not by looking at the stars, which, you know, is a quite remarkable thing to be saying.

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