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The Divided yet Connected Brain with Iain McGilchrist

November 23, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, author, lecturer, and former Oxford Literary Scholar. He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they arise – the culture which helps to mold, and in turn is molded by, our minds and brains.

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Iain McGilchrist and I Discuss The Divided yet Connected Brain and …

  • His book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
  • That creativity requires resistance
  • The differences between the two hemispheres of our brain
  • How distinctions are important but divisions are invented by us
  • The ways our brain hemispheres work together
  • That our world is currently dominated by left brain hemisphere thinking
  • The ways we might address the crises we face as a species and world
  • How he responds to the critics of a right brain/left brain theory
  • The ways in which our hemispheres are connected and work together
  • The difference between our two hemispheres isn’t as much what they do but how they do it
  • The 8 portals our brain uses to get information about the world
  • The 4 powers we have to arrive at truth

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Iain McGilchrist, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

Whole Brain Living with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

Lessons About the Brain with Lisa Feldman Barrett

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