Iain McGilchrist - The Matter With Things Part 1

[@MusicalBasics]

Watching this video and I had to click "subscribe" on the first 1.5 minutes because of the way you praised Iain, and he is exactly as you said, a once in a generation, paradigm groundbreaking person. Cheers!

[@TheInnovationShow]

Thank you

[@hglatGAIA]

I love this. Absorbing, utterly absorbing.

[@TheInnovationShow]

Thank you Helen

[@hglatGAIA]

By the way Aidan is a brilliant interviewer and as such I have subscribed to his channel after hearing this on 21st May, 2023. Thank you both so very much.

[@TheInnovationShow]

Thank you Helen, the guests make it easy, Aidan

[@aidanmccullen5828]

Thank you @helenperala3459

[@bobdillaber1195]

Every time I listen to one of these discussions, I better understand it all. This discussion was especially good, I think.

[@TheInnovationShow]

Thank you Bob, I learned a lot also.

[@bobdillaber1195]

@TheInnovationShow Since you answered my reply, here's my hope! I would absolutely love to hear a discussion between you, Ian, and Robert Sapolsky! That would be amazing, and I think the three of you would learn from each other. And me too, of course!

[@TheInnovationShow]

@bobdillaber1195 yes that would be a great discussion. I have Iain lined up for a discussion with Mark Solms. I also have Robert Sapolsky lined up for a chat with Robin Dunbar.

[@bobdillaber1195]

@TheInnovationShow Wonderful! I look forward to both of those. You do a very nice job as the discussion host. That isn't always the case in some of his discussions.

[@bobdillaber1195]

@TheInnovationShow Just a word about myself and my great interest in this. For 14 years, I led a support group twice monthly for individuals with mental health challenges. I loved doing it. However, toward the end, I wanted to do more to help them move their lives forward . So I stepped down from that volunteer role and began a very deliberate new quest to seek that. That was 10 years ago. During these past 10 years of my quest, I have designed and conducted countless workshops and activities that I hoped would accomplish my goal. All this led me to the issue of why we change and/or don't change. It's been a fascinating journey, and I've learned so much. All of this is to say that when I came across sapolsky and Ian, I was amazed that I had almost an intuitive understanding of their knowledge. I found myself shaking my head, saying yes,yes! to all they were saying. Obviously, they had much greater knowledge in many areas than I did, but I used their knowledge to fill in the blanks or still existing questions I had. It has been an amazing journey. I set out to help others and ended up helping myself more than I could ever have imagined. Recently, I've had to step back from those activities because of health challenges. I'm 84 and life has a way of catching up to you and letting you know that. Lol

[@udo9999]

Thanks! Iain McGilchrist is truley ... I miss the appropriate words. His work is incredibly important!

[@bookchaser1103]

Well, I've posted two videos thus far, and one is me finally opening my copy of The Matter with Things, not unlike a giddy schoolboy on Christmas morning. But excellent interview, and I greatly look forward to part two. My own little journey with all this started over twenty years ago with people like Joseph Campbell and Alan Watts. So if this is a bit of a conclusion to that journey, it is a pretty spectacular one. In sum, one of the reasons Mcgilchrist's work is so beloved is that it connects about a hundred and one dots simultaneously, giving us profound new insights into old feelings and ideas that have been illuminated against this neurological backdrop.

[@lynnroots7556]

BEAUTIFUL 💖

[@MattAngiono]

I still listen to Watts on the regular.... I'm looking forward to reading this too, when I finally get the time

[@TheInnovationShow]

Yes I do also, thanks to his foresight to record his talks and their availability on KZbin

[@bookchaser1103]

@@TheInnovationShow (Yep, I'm very glad KZbin is an available medium. The internet extolls a heavy price, but maybe it's worth it for shows like this. 👍)

[@TheInnovationShow]

Thank you for your kind words Book Chaser

[@MrArdytube]

Attention: without ascribing meaning… it is interesting to note that that even at a quantum mechanics scale… attention is fundamental to reality via Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle.

[@DrGregHeaslip]

Great stuff Aidan. Another great interview with an incredible author. Looking forward to the next one.

[@josephmcgowan404]

I'm handicapped and well looked after

[@TheInnovationShow]

Thank you Greg, yes he is wonderful

[@PromoMIAR]

Love ImcG and his work. Well done for getting this interview.

[@TheInnovationShow]

Thank you Steven, part 2 coming soon.

[@kipling1957]

When is The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchrist going to be available in printed form on Amazon in Canada?

[@aniccadance13]

Thank you, Aidan, brilliant interview..Subbed🥰

[@TheInnovationShow]

Thank you Annica

[@upandblessed9867]

This is an awesome dialogue. Thank u

[@TheInnovationShow]

Thank you for your support 🙂

[@udo9999]

Now I watch it for the third or even forth time :-)

[@ernestberry-songsrestored5637]

I intuited from a young age that some people are clever but may not be wise .

[@kiljoy3254]

A new lens - hemineutic

[@nyranstanton203]

this was mad, the recent jordon peterson podcast was out of this world

[@jhbunny]

E. O. Wilson, ant man and Nobel winner in the closing lines of Consilience,laments that we are on the road to extinction because we are striving to become robots.

[@TheInnovationShow]

May be rest in peace

[@_Game_Of_Geopolitocs]

We are very much declined to left hemisphere thts the fact

[@Boylieboyle]

'Effin' ell if this is not the louche opposite of louche. Otherwise how could I keep up?

[@jhbunny]

I recommend that Dr. McGilchrist read the entire Judeo-Christian Bible. There he will discover the examples found in Moses delegation of role of mouth-piece to his left-brained brother Aaron and Jesus getting so pissed at how obtuse the left-brain Pharisees persisted in holding to past elders and miss the love of God in Messiah Jesus.

[@mrbwatson8081]

Can you think of an object that comes with more metaphysical baggage then a 🧠…..? If I look in a mirror 🪞 I see me. Where is that happening? IN my brain 🧠? ……..If I cut open my head in front of mirror 🪞 I see brain, where is that happening?:) if that’s happening in my brain then where is my brain ?

[@TheInnovationShow]

A great thought, but is that your brain that thinks that or you? 😃

[@mrbwatson8081]

@@TheInnovationShow IS IT YOUR BRAIN THAT THINKS OR YOU 🤣👌 check this out ….. the “you” is just an idea 💡(MY toy!!) remember :) That’s when “you” came into being:) “you” 💡 ego, highjacked an impersonal subjective field of appearances, claiming this is me my MINE I :)….. So is “you” brain activity? moment you try to explain appearances such as 💭 🎶 👀 🌅 🪞 by saying it’s just 🧠 activity (which is an appearance) you then fall into trap trying explain why there is SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING:) If appearance 🪞 is brain activity, what explains brain activity? Neuronal activity (sodium ions passing through membranes) what explains neuronal activity? 4 fields a bunch of laws and equations and 17 subatomic particles :) so what explains all that activity? Down the rabbit hole you go:) model after model after model FOREVER :) I personally believe reality is just a subjective field of appearances the rest is your imagination:)

[@real1t1ychek]

McGilchrist looks like he's restating in more flowery language what Kahneman stated more usefully & succinctly in 'Thinking, Fast & Slow'? He also seems to ignore the massive influence that elites' narrow mass media monopoly over the public discourse has on peoples' behaviour? McGilchrist himself notes the process by which he arrives at what amounts to largely polemic bullshit - 7 years being 'creative' in the ivory tower provided by his award of Fellowship of All Souls College to no practical purpose whatever. What results is reductionism on steroids, positing that human society is merely a simple addition of each individual's 'thinking' & lack of 'creativity'. Nothing 'paradigm changing' in the slightest for society in what McGilchrist is talking about. Which is why he's lauded & promoted as some kind of profound thinker. (Whilst human society hurls itself headlong toward a 6th Mass Extinction of itself & by its own hands.) In short - humans are predisposed toward story tellers, regardless of whether anything of reality is contained in the stories. McGilchrist is the perfect product of what might be called the system of intellectualising 'astrology - the age old disease of academe not based in experimental/empirically derived scientific inquiry. Think about it... if the 'social sciences' or 'philosophical', as practised, were actually useful, & not in fact the opposite - making large contribution to killing off our species & much of the ecology it depends on - the world would not have evolved to such a totally f*k up & psychopathic state of terminal decline on planetary scale, in the age of mass information sharing? Bit more humility needed perhaps, Mr Gilchrist?

[@levcimac]

Elsrwhere Mcgilchrist rejects Kanehmans system 1 and 2 concepts and claims to have followed up on Kahnemans citations to discover some deal-breaker inaccuracies.

[@alexanderdenheijer565]

Your left hemisphere seems pretty offended😂

[@TheInnovationShow]

😂

[@michaelricketson1365]

An incredibly obtuse rant, just absolutely stunning.

[@Jeri-]

I'm always supicious of a lengthy introduction, and I'm loosing the will to stay with it, if his book is that good it will " get out " allow your viewers to be the judge of your guest,

[@TheInnovationShow]

Thanks for your feedback Geri, my right hemisphere has taken it on board, my left is slightly defensive :)

[@Jeri-]

@@TheInnovationShow I can understand that, l sympathise with your left hemisphere ~ but we're here to learn & since science itself was created by the Creator it can and will be withdrawn when the time comes,

[@TheInnovationShow]

@@Jeri- I hope you enjoyed the episode in any case Geri

[@Jeri-]

@@TheInnovationShow hmm... I'm afraid l left my Remark & made off, l may watch it later ~ time is always a problem, { l've also noticed a lack of willingness in myself to read books like l used to, l think the Internet { Tablets & phones } colourful pics & short narratives might be partly responsible } you come across quite well, & since there's a shortage of Irish uploads I'll subscribe,

[@Jeri-]

@@TheInnovationShow there, liked 👍 & Subbed, the extra "Comments" won't so any harm either

[@gardenladyjimenez1257]

Does lain touch on any aspect of the work on autism done by Dr. Temple Grandin? She can be seen on "Talks at Google." Thanks.

[@TheInnovationShow]

Thank you, there is a chapter on autism in the book. I do hope to have him back again to discuss it

[@gardenladyjimenez1257]

@@TheInnovationShow Wonderful. I will watch for the show.

[@gardenladyjimenez1257]

@@TheInnovationShow Wonderful. I will look for this show.