The divided brain, attention and how we see the world - Dr Iain McGilchrist

Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, writer, and former Oxford literary scholar. McGilchrist came to prominence after the publication of his book The Master and His Emissary, subtitled The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. His work formed the basis of Orlando Wood's books on advertising, Lemon and Look Out.
Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
01:09 - Iain McGilchrist background
06:05 - Hasn’t the myth of the right and left brain been debunked
12:48 - The changes in society based on right brained dominance
16:36 - Are we seeing a left to right brained shift in society today?
22:10 - How are the big discoveries made?
24:39 - How understanding attention could change the world
26:34 - How the left and right brains do things differently
29:19 - Is attention crested by us or the world around us?
31:18 - Can we train ourselves to be more right-brained?
35:13 - AI asks Iain a question
37:13 - How did Orlando Wood connect with Iain McGilchrist
45:02 - Orlando’s most profound piece of Iain’s work

[@user-yp7vf5lo8h]

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Here is the man who unlocks the secrets of the upside-down world we're living in. He needs to be listened to and understood by everyone alive.

[@ChrisOgunlowo]

Oh, lovely. I'm in the middle of The Master and his Emissary, and I enjoy listening to Iain's solemn and measured voice. Beautiful conversation, Gentlemen.

[@Pastaface]

Getting to know Iain's work better proves beyond worthwhile.

[@tombrand236]

Great episode and nice to learn more from Dr McGilchrist himself! Also listen to him on his own KZbin channel.

[@edybrasfield1345]

❤😊❤Thanks so much for spreading wisdom.

[@levitation25]

"William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience" - Great book 👍

[@majdavojnikovic]

There was a pain relief medicine commercial, where they used sound to describe different pains. I thought it was marvellously accurate done. You could almost feel those different types of pain.

[@lansingday1453]

Thank you! I'm feeling an ah~ha moment at 5:04 on Left Hemi "put in that box". Right Hemi of me says "hmm that's all fair thee well... I master sends sphere container for that box, now a cube, to circum-sit in. Let's together spin that cube, on one of its axes." Weeeee! Fun embodiment!

[@heathcliffearnshaw1403]

Eureka! :: compare "the use"of a car with "the use " of a train, for example! Train has more uses beyond just left hemispheral 'getting'....

[@Moses_42]

Humor finds its way under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

[@shawnewaltonify]

The self is a representation whereas the RH is a different type of attention where we experience the real world. Therefore, the LH is creating media and the self is a type of media. If so, then media is a legitimate experience because it is LH which is just as legitimate type of attention as RH.

[@Zeitaluq]

The human global society had to go through major Axial Thoughts. Ian P. Morris explored the trajectory of human development. As a race this species went through Bronze Age Agriculture and Iron Age. Each main period needed the Axial Thought of the time and indeed the subject raised in this interview hints at next level of thinking and awareness.

[@benbahara1974]

william james....yes yes yes

[@betlzden]

😻

[@apank21]

no mention of diversity of brain structures..................

[@mikegregory222]

Eye oillive for o

[@Falas5898]

I found Brandon Sanderson's twin brother.

[@blissluminosity]

Curious why you jump cut right past one of the most profound points made in this podcast? Stole some of the gravitas... 19:26 "We live in a world that is schematically simple...ridiculously impoverished from a philosophical and emotional point of view as well as a moral point of view...has completely put out of the picture any spiritual value...and I mean that may or may not interest your viewers and listeners...but I happen to think it's the biggest loss of all...and that, in fact, it won't do us any good to push technology further if we don't have some sense of what we're doing with that and where we're heading...some wisdom."