A Conversation with Dr. Raymond Tallis | Personhood, Neuroscience, Freedom & Common Life

[@gor764]

Excellent dialogue. I've always admired the common sense metaphysical clarity Tallis discusses issues with

[@noreenquinn3844]

About presentation and representation, perhaps the right brain sees but the left brain elbows it out of the way before it can appreciate and be in awe of what it see. It (the left brain) doesn't pay attention to the whole, to beauty, truth etc.. It breaks it down / reduces it to usable bits. Never seeing the beauty, transcendent wisdom that the whole can bring. Just like we sometimes see the crescent but other times see the whole of the moon? We sometimes see the stars but other times we look up in awe and see the heavens, the awesomeness. We perhaps need to structure life so we have time to appreciate the awesomeness.

[@noreenquinn3844]

The physical brain seems to me, to somehow limit consciousness. It perhaps does this so that we can cope and not suffer from the combinatorial explosive effect of having complete awareness / knowledge of everything. We wouldn't be able to focus if we had this or to make decisions. We would blow a fuse. When we die perhaps we / our consciousness is released from the limitations of our physical brain and of the limitations of the physical world. Maybe we becomes part of a universal consciousness? That consciousness perhaps becomes marked by each of our lived experience and changes as a result. Consciousness touching consciousness somehow changes the whole. Ian Mcgilchrist says that attention is a moral act. I agree with this. What we look at comes into focus and everything else fades out. This is important to know. If we believe that our existence matters and that we make a difference we must be careful what we pay attention to. Ian Mcgilchrist also looks at what damage to each hemisphere does. So he is not just looking at things as a third hemisphere. He also seems to advocate deliberately trying to cultivated / awaken the right brain so that it's insight /wisdom is released. The way the world has evolved has forced the suppression of the right brain but perhaps we have the powers to release its wisdom. He passionaty seems to believe that this is worth doing and that it will make a difference in improving our lot in this world. It will give us greater insight and wisdom. Wisdom is so much more than knowledge after all. Worth doing I think. We know the expressions use it or lose it. Ian seems to be saying that we need to cultivate the right brain because the more pushy, primitive, animalistic, and selfish left brain ( needed for survival) requires tutoring to do a good job.

[@anthonyjohnson1294]

Smart enough to write 30 books but NOT speak steadily into the microphone???

[@davidrandell2224]

“The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy “, Mark McCutcheon. “The Unique and Its Property “, Max Stirner/Landstreicher. “The Bible Came from Arabia “, Kamal Salibi,1985 plus his 3 other bible study books. Without such this floundering will continue. Tallis and most folks can’t “ handle the truth.” Good luck.

[@stanleyklein524]

"Bible study" and "truth" is akin to "married" and "bachelor".

[@davidrandell2224]

@@stanleyklein524 Another wit- you- claiming prescience.Laugh.

[@stanleyklein524]

@@davidrandell2224 If "claiming prescience" is pointing out your stupidity I stand guilty as accused. BTW: I think if you read in chronological order you might be able (with help) to see that it was you who initially claimed "prescience" by arguing that you had access to the "truth" and predicting the "floundering will continue". Moron.