As a French person living in the U.K. I have learnt to enjoy the British sense of humour, and their freedom of expression through music, fashion, and the arts generally. I have found that the British also have great respect for the values of the past and tradition. It shows in the preservation of ancient buildings, even steam trains, which is quite endearing. But what has captivated me the most is their love for plants, gardening and wildlife, which I share. I also like a good pantomime!
@williammurtha9293 ай бұрын
Amazing man. Have seriously got into his work this year and my life is better for it.
@Parianparlay2 ай бұрын
Well said!
@patriciamayborne28583 ай бұрын
What a lovely, intelligent man
@stuartthorpe3 ай бұрын
Thank you for this, Iain. A most moving and elevating talk.
@theresapelham19182 ай бұрын
Relaxed in the heart awake in the brain
@Raymond-d2l7n3 ай бұрын
A very insightful thinker for our sad times.
@rachelvisconti72872 ай бұрын
What a lovely man! I am so glad to discover this wonderful thinker!
@hglatGAIA2 ай бұрын
I love to support this man. His work is excellent.
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang8852 ай бұрын
have you taken the journey of reading his new 2 volume tome?
@andrewwoodgate3769Ай бұрын
One People, One Planet, One Love
@DeborahPinder-f5t3 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed that, thanks for sharing
@marielloyd85943 ай бұрын
iain - the most broadly capable, most healing of doctors.
@ezioberolo29363 ай бұрын
Thank you Iain.....
@craigkeller3 ай бұрын
Absolutely agree. Would love to share a pint and watch the sunset! Aloha.
@user-lu9hq6jv4v3 ай бұрын
❤!
@kasturiswami78428 күн бұрын
Absolutely balanced. The complete negation of faith and divine in the face of reason is destroying us. One can not prove everything like in a laboratory.
@beljacobs9263Ай бұрын
Wonderful talk. Could the Natural also be the Divine?
@sheenapearse7663 ай бұрын
‘ Once we know ourselves , … we can construct our knowledge of the external world (with all its contingency and uncertainty ) on our own individual foundation .’ Husserl. … ie First ‘ Know thy self ‘ “ As a suffering creature, I cannot do without something greater than I - something that is my life - the power to create.” Vincent van Gogh
@iayanarael23153 ай бұрын
oh gawsh - so many wonderful phrases to quote !! Chi miigwech!
@peterwiles12993 ай бұрын
Profound. The government is not going to help us. Government welfare is a road to collapse. It’s the family and community that’s paramount.
@CarrieB222 ай бұрын
If this is going to be used to argue for further erosion of welfare systems, then we have a problem. We absolutely need investment in a way that takes account of what matters. That can be channelled into localities if that's the best way to do it.
@CollectionOfTheTimelessАй бұрын
Waiting for government to do the change is indeed not the right approach but expecting that we can do without it is fallacious as well. There was a thought-provoking on a article "Our passive society" on what we can do: "As the activists of Occupy Wall Street understood, we have to bring back sit-ins on a mass scale, on a larger scale than in the 1930s and 1960s. We have to sit in at universities, and in public parks, and in legislative chambers; we have to sit down on highways and bridges and city streets. We have to flood the centers of power with wave after wave of popular rage. We have, in short, to disrupt, for that is how change happens. We should emulate the Luddites, pioneers of a sophisticated anti-capitalism, and totally resist our final reduction to the status of appendages to the Machine."
@waltergigandet67153 ай бұрын
It is thru connection to nature, the temple of the Devine, that one finds peace within
@DrevPile2 ай бұрын
Inspiring.
@masoudmehrdad75023 ай бұрын
Beautifuly explained
@ximono3 ай бұрын
Wonderful interview, thanks for sharing this! 9:24 I think AI is not so much about _improving_ our cognition, but outsourcing it to machines, effectively _impairing_ our cognition. There's nothing wrong with improving one's cognition, is there? Isn't that what (good) education does? Computers can also aid in that, as long as we use _it_ as a tool and not the other way around. I'm thinking of judicious use of actual computers, not the "smart" gadgets and apps that are being pushed upon us. Used responsibly, I think computers can be good tools for thought, aiding but not replacing Human Intelligence (HI).
@VickiNikolaidis3 ай бұрын
11:46 try turniing that upside down
@jmaryk66043 ай бұрын
Also recommend The Compassionate Brain
@DaveE993 ай бұрын
Permaculture and regenerative agriculture is vital
@dianecorbin88862 ай бұрын
Inspirational ❤
@tomgreene18433 ай бұрын
The matter with Things is a journey ...but it takes a good deal of time !
@mikeoglen68487 күн бұрын
Quite an interesting perspective...
@VickiNikolaidis3 ай бұрын
10:18 reclaim sanity
@kanehogan7049Ай бұрын
Yes as Christopher Alexander in The Nature Of Order, discovered, - “…for cultural aliveness to exist, beauty and wholeness is the ORDER that emerges from the people”. Each individual has an important component of the social ecology that keeps society healthy and free from conceptual monocultures and mental homogenisation. As Christopher Alexander extols, “get design right, and you’ll facilitate human wellbeing”. Examples of Design that facilitates human wellbeing can be seen in The Netherlands powerfully redemptive bicycle cultures getting rid of car domination in infrastructure, so people can connect better, and have fun and be fitter.
@mrdeanvincent3 ай бұрын
More excellent discussion from Iain McGilchrist. My only gripe is I've now heard him say in several talks that "capitalism and social media" are problematic. Blaming social media seems redundant, because it very likely would have been a net positive if it wasn't shaped by capitalist forces.
@carlt5703 ай бұрын
This is the nub of Iain's hemispheric perspective : "are problematic" does not mean 'they are the problem', it means they exacerbate the problem. Balanced and nuanced - rather than either / or .
@Acode79402 ай бұрын
Yes, that was why I stopped reading his first? book--it seemed to me not only very left hemispheric but also very "Virgoan," that is, with details inside details inside details. I can only take so much of that even from a researcher whose results and ideas I am interested in. Now I wonder if he did less of that with this next book.
@Stigtoes2 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, eliminating competition will take a very long time to undo the millions of years of evolution where, until recently, you had to compete to survive. There isn’t as much mental illness in those competing to survive and our current predicament has come about as a result of our comfortable, easy lives. I'm sure that McGilchrist will help many through their problems.
@Connecting2nature2 ай бұрын
Live the best life we can, learn to become in stillness.
@dp32002 ай бұрын
Gospel!
@kec7116Ай бұрын
I listened to three times because I love his work and in a short video it explained so much profoundly. However, to blame capitalism is to be short-sighted. The atomization that classical marxism started was accelerated by neo-marxism and post mondernism. What they sought to avoid 'with the alienation of man' only hastened it. Women were told we are a fake construct when so much of what makes a woman stems from the right hemisphere. Men were told in the 60s that they were unnecessary to families and hell was unleashed. The promises of the Enlightenment that it would solve humanity's problems was a complete lie.
@artoaco3 ай бұрын
🌼🌺🌸
@levlevin1822 ай бұрын
Iain, sounds like your practicing being. Very Practical indeed. 🕺🏼
@Raymond-d2l7n3 ай бұрын
Our relationship with the divine. Or as Heidegger put it: Only a God can save us.
@levlevin182Ай бұрын
The human experience is illusionary bullshit. On the other hand, the human reality of happiness love & joy is well being🕺🏼
@kasturiswami78428 күн бұрын
In India though it is a poor country,more people are happy because of their enormous faith in God,whoever they tend to worship,inspite of great difficulties.
@SidneyBarquera-e8l3 ай бұрын
Lesch Meadows
@hologramhouse7293 ай бұрын
Meaning ¿¡ 🤪
@Raymond-d2l7n3 ай бұрын
Be still and know that I am God.
@DavyTracy-l7i3 ай бұрын
Taylor Maria Young Ronald Rodriguez Ronald
@iayanarael23153 ай бұрын
2': say that to Bill Gates : )
@timeenoughforart2 ай бұрын
An online AI therapist will make us all productive.
@Rawdiswar2 ай бұрын
LOL. 😂
@bjarkenielsen8515Ай бұрын
Yes, finally! But how many would be productive above average? 🤣
@jamesayres12253 ай бұрын
I have read most of what you have read. Correction
@2msvalkyrie5293 ай бұрын
Waffle.......waffle.......ramble.....twitter....blah, blah.....etc..The usual string of banalities ...! 90% of it meaningless..! Oh wait.! Now he's discovered the Divine....!!! 😂 😂
@jamesayres12253 ай бұрын
I said all the things you believe 30 years ago ago in therapy. I am you. I have most of what you have. I can not believe you think Douglas Murray is great, although very bright, he is very arrogant and part if the Tufton St problem. I think you have blind spots with regard to economics, the so called educated and generally the British.