Beyond the Mechanistic Conception of Reality - Iain McGilchrist & Philip Goyal in Conversation

This conversation is part of an online seminar series taking place in the Spring and Summer of 2023 bringing innovative thinkers into conversation with Iain McGilchrist to explore his philosophy as laid out in The Matter with Things. www.amazon.com/Matter-Things-...
In the week following each event, we hold free connection and inquiry sessions online to meet and reflect more deeply with others on the significance of the ideas shared in the previous week’s seminar. Incorporating embodied and relational practices, we’ll alternate between break-out room conversations and whole-group discussion. The emphasis is on authentic connections, epistemic humility, and a sense of wonder in relation to Iain and his interlocutors' work. You're warmly invited to join us!
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[@colinbarnes1501]

The postman has just delivered my copy of The Matter With Things. What a beast of a book. I think that this may well be the Big Read of my Life. I'm so excited.

[@laurenceholden]

Jonathan”s continuing role here is so, so important, in opening up the cracks to question!!! Thank you, thank you Jonathan for helping me think more clearly. When you push back it’s quite wonderful your conversants recognize it’s in care & respect.

[@francinemancini7476]

Wonderful discussion. Thank you. Looking forward to Iain and Philip having another conversation soon, please.

[@tomgreene1843]

Great that folk like these can get a public platform. Life is not a single note but a dynamic polyphony which is to be looked at/ listened to with a symphonic ear. Potential

[@marcobiagini1878]

I am a physicist and I will explain why our scientific knowledge refutes the idea that consciousness is generated by the brain and that the origin of our mental experiences is physical/biological (in my youtube channel you can find a video with more detailed explanations). My arguments prove the existence in us of an indivisible unphysical element, which is usually called soul or spirit.

[@VenusLover17]

Thanks so much❤❤

[@cheri238]

I loved this discussion with all of you today. ❤

[@schoolofmasteryformindfull1417]

Just sharing regards the resistance to priority of hemisphere’s. It we transcend the objectivity of the ego, we avoid spitting awareness and so recognise our Oneness.

[@SensemakingMartin]

Fucking banging conversation lads. Thank you. Especially loved JR creating a debate at the end. Great content

[@AugustNightingale]

Yes! Moving to understand everything as dynamic and contextualised, not sliced and static. And it’s exciting to think that is happening in lots of disciplines. For Educational psychologists it’s the preference for DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT over Intelligence testing. (Higher than actuality stands potentiality or possibility, as Iain quotes from Heidegger at 58.27]

[@hydrorix1]

Niels Bohr also said, "what we think of as real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real."

[@helenperala3459]

From my point of view we should go within the body itself and unravel ITS mysteries before we go any more outside ourselves. Micro-Macro etc. Great chat.

[@damianclifford9693]

Great conversation. One feature comparing the right and left that was not mentioned as far as I recall is that the right hemishere knows, and values, what the left hemisphere contributes, but the left does not know , never mind understand, what the right hemisphere contributes. Further, the left thinks it knows it all, minus some minor details that can be filled in, the rignt on the other hand knows that it cannot know all, that it is limited, which of course it has to be. It knows more in part by knowing that it knows less.

[@ejenkins4711]

In the biggining we creat the end what inbetween we feel found in the rainmaker

[@williamsibree4286]

Pascal did science, although he utterly rejected Cartesian mechanism. He saw frightenigly far.

[@breadrev2008]

Such a central point (not really a point bad language that need change) that imbalance is crucial to truth 🤔

[@AnHebrewChild]

27:00

[@Boylieboyle]

Another prolongated introduction by JR. Just saying.

[@ejenkins4711]

Ehat if you switch on thinking before university. Yes it would be messy for a time but like an unfolding flower uno

[@ingenuity168]

What's the rustling sound?