Iain McGilchrist - The Divided Brain and the Unmaking of Our World

[@lafasanagnuhd4098]

i found him by the talk of Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Dr. Jordan B. Peterson both amazing intellectual men

[@AcmePotatoPackingPocatello]

My wife is a 3rd grade teacher. Worked in that capacity for 25 years: she has repeatedly stated recently, the children, in ever greater numbers, are exhibiting very poor attention skills. Other teachers in her group report the same....greater than 40% of the students for her this year display attention problem. Whereas 15 years ago they had one or two students approx 5%. The Master and his Emissary is a VERY interesting read. It should be required reading in University, regardless of study interest.

[@Arcamedi1]

Where I’m at 44% of the population are at level one literary meaning grade 5-7 so barely literate and 80% of the prison population is functionally illiterate so basically one out of two people you meet is basically illiterate and is also highly likely to participate in criminal activities.

[@Kebabpunk]

Agree, as a therapist, most of my 17 - 25 year old clients either think or indeed have a diagnosis of ADHD and simply cannot focus on most things. British journalist and author Johan Hari has devoted an entire book precisely about that: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari#Stolen_Focus_(2022) In it, he describes how a university professor shared how he despairs that he cannot bring his students anymore to read any books. Harvard, incidentally.

[@helenperalaGAIA]

This is amazing work you do Iain. I have a real problem with attention and am teaching myself to concentrate by playing and by that I mean, allowing myself to create artwork for relaxation purposes. It makes a big difference to be able to put something on paper and have a result. I feel like a child again at nearly 60, by just allowing myself to do this. I came across your work today in 2021, March and love this. I have ordered one of your books to read more as I know this will help me. Thank you.

[@bridge12582]

Very thought provoking. This has far-reaching relevance...in many ways ties together and clarifies things I've been thinking about for years. Very thankful for Mcgilchrist's work. Definitely gonna slog out the book. Thanks for uploading this as well 🙏❤

[@dirtpoorrobins]

Staggeringly brilliant. There is so much in common here with his theory / research and the Old Testament concepts of Heavens & Earth / Mind & Body and Time & Space / Water & Dry Land It’s a timeless discussion Ian is reengaging. And much needed during a time where there is such a crisis in meaning.

[@lionelchan1601]

Heaven and Earth is all but a universal split in cultures. The overemphasis on one side over the other might be a useful way of categorising different religions and spiritual approaches. If the overarching Principle is a Sky-Father for example, or a Mother-Earth, then there may be difficulty in integrating the duality. Something outside and antecedent to both seems necessary to keep a wholesome peace, and straying towards either side is in error.

[@marciaharms465]

This was quite an enlightening discussion. At the approximate age of three years old I remember watching my arguing parents and then silence. I wondered if they were having these odd things I noticed in my mind, later what came to be known to me as thoughts.This is where intuition became so important as I did not have caretaker or siblings to help regulate this for me.

[@davideatwell6577]

As a painter & working in an improvisational way, pretty much right brain stuff,I have as little idea as anyone else what'I've' actually produced which makes it as interesting for me as the any other viewer

[@ewanjenkins]

Thanks for uploading this talk. Deeply appreciated.

[@kadedrury300]

Get a dog up ya

[@leslietaylor1443]

McGilchrist notes teachers report of significantly increased numbers of students with deficient ability to sustain attention, read faces, and empathic connection and function (a frightening problem), all right hemisphere functions and perhaps due to the effects of cell phone usage; right handers holding cell phones against the right side of their heads. Particularly vulnerable would be the young. Perhaps the solution, with far reaching favorable effects (restraining the left hemisphere and restoring the right to its rightful position) would be for all to place their cell phones against the left side of their heads. The left brained (e.g. the makers and marketers of these devices) thus undoes themselves rather than the artists, poets, musicians and chess players.

[@DWSTR]

As much as overuse of cell phones concern me as well, I don't know if there is evidence of a direct connection here. Like most people, I'm right-handed but hold the phone to my left ear, which makes me think that other factors are at play, such as, perhaps, simply spending less time face to face, and being engrossed in left-brain tasks, and listening to music that is heavy in beat and short in harmony, melody and rich complexity. Arts belong in the schools. In any case, these ideas are fascinating and provide an interesting perspective on possible links to so many of today's problems. I'm so grateful to be shown these ideas.

[@jennifs6868]

and the fact that we no longer afford art and music in school. STEM starts already in kindergarten. Cold, logical, intellectual education begins in kindergarten. we are doomed. the age of reason has now become the nightmarish age of anxiety.

[@miss.apprehended]

Apparently left-handedness is associated with right brain dominance..

[@fuckcensorship8809]

The right hemisphere is capable of destroying anything.

[@myTHself]

that brought a lot together! thankx! - hmmm, although as is inevitably the case, the closing pinup of pictures plopped short () in effectively describing arts 'whole-someness' (i think Mr McGilchrist would agree!)... here i think consideration of the post modern staccato aesthetic can be 'wholesome' in the wandering tempo of every day life's complex contextual serendipity... hurrah, we are here and there!

[@johnburman966]

Speaking apparently involves the whole brain. Eloquence was valued until the age of machines. Now in our entirely mechanistic age conversation has been reduced to one line blurts, hence the reduced attention in children. Interaction is passive with computers, (imaginative with books), reducing cognition.

[@bs-qe1sz]

Min 28-43 great stuff on production of art

[@jennysmith9591]

Yes.

[@johnburman966]

A lot of so called art, especially what is valued by media, galleries, and art schools, seems to be contrived - the exact opposite of what art is, deep connection with truth which can be known but not defined.

[@maximevigier5904]

In Mcgilchrist's explanation of left and right brain differences, sometimes I see a pattern similar to the one in Kahneman's systems 1 and 2.

[@kasc6018]

I found it sooo hard paying attention to this lecture. I listened 3x but still don’t get it 😠😩😞

[@laurenalacroix5114]

look at my brain! 30 years of pain!

[@billshire2681]

Aah, yes. Julian Jaynes....