Iain McGilchrist - What is my culture preventing me from seeing?

Iain McGilchrist is a rare polymath who draws on his background in literature, philosophy, medicine and the sciences to make a profound argument that the kind of attention we pay to the world determines not only the kind of people we become, but also the world we create. He argues that the brains left hemisphere has a disenchanted and mechanical view of the world, and it is this that has come to dominate the Western World. A consequence of this is that we've lost a sense of the sacred, of belonging, and of the reality of the values of truth, beauty and goodness.
In this episode we discuss what it is about life that we might be missing through the way we are paying attention. The conversation is wide ranging, exploring the brain hemispheres, the reality of values, and indeed the purpose of life in the universe.
Further information on Iain's work can be found on his website. (channelmcgilchrist.com/)
A full version of this interview will be available on the Examined Life's youtube channel. ( / @examinedlifepodcast )

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1. The central dogma of biology is, if not incorrect, a significantly flawed concept. 2. The flaw of 1. Is a fundamental problem related to the understanding of the universe and its fundamental geometry and iterative properties. 3. 1. And 2 . Are not evolved but iterated. One selection out of an infinite number. Not random in its being selected but pseudo random in its iterations. What is the knowledge of good and evil? Why shouldn’t you have it?

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Eating from the tree of the knowledge of good or evil is not specifically knowing the difference between good and evil. It is knowing that without God there is no good or evil.