Ian McGilchrist

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uh only a few hundred years after the first empirical scientists.

were observing the heavens and making very good and robust deductions from what they saw.

So, you know, th that that's the drift there and one sees the same thing happening.

in Roman civilization and I see this happening also in our civilization when again

There is this sudden efflorescence of creative life in the sciences and in the arts in the Renaissance.

But with the Enlightenment there's a hardening up of a certain rather dogmatic and

left hemisphere based view of the world which we're still struggling with.

Well, y I'd slightly dispute that.

I think modern science originated in earlier than the Enlightenment and that's really what I'm saying.

There was an enormously rich period.

in the fifteenth, sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries before the Enlightenment kicked in.

And of course the left hemisphere is not devoid of of feelings at all.

It has its own

a range of emotions and capacity to appreciate emotions.

Interestingly, anger is one of the emotions that is most most obviously lateralised towards the left hemisphere.

So it's not that it's um able coolly to get on with science.

I think that's a total misconception.

The business of Which is a relief.

I'm

Yeah, because the the exactly science is something much more wonderful than that.

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