The divided brain - interview with Iain McGilchrist | VIEWPOINT

[@nancyhope2205]

I have read this book through twice and I intend to read it again because I am only a bear of small brain. This is a wonderful interview which clarifies so much. I stand in awe.

[@plekkchand]

@Praxis Of Logos Yes- it's a good idea to distract yourself as much as possible when you're trying to understand a book. This is excellent advice.

[@justincase6683]

@@plekkchand Not to mention that playing games on your phone is a well known cutting-edge learning technique, used in the very best schools

[@deroconnor4621]

A masterful summary. When I studied martial arts the Chinese described the alternation between left and right brain cultures as an alternation between bureaucratic over pacified culture and active outgoing strong culture.

[@Jacob011]

This cannot be overshared!

[@yassinemotaouakkil3530]

Probably the most interesting book since Maps of Meaning

[@mrshah2043]

Science Set Free by Rupert Sheldrake is another interesting book that honestly probes nature while bucking the incurious orthodoxy that has taken over Western scientific minds. I highly recommend it.

[@mmhmmm2]

Also, Tony Wright's research is very interesting. He looks at the development of the brain all the way back to Homo Erectus. I hope to see Iain and Tony have a discussion someday.

[@mmhmmm2]

His theory is called "Left in the Dark."

[@mirnajafalikhan9216]

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[@mirnajafalikhan9216]

@@mmhmmm2 ppl loop loo. No

[@katladyfromtheNetherlands]

can never get satisfied with too much grasping

[@benedicamusdomino8546]

China has implemented a scoring system like that, if you frown too much your score can go down significantly which limits your ability for good health care or decent hotel or to even bill to travel. They refined their AI to be able identity a person even when their face is covered by looking at a persons gait or their ears (ears are as unique as fingerprints). My friend lives in China and I worry for him....

[@BalthasarCarduelis]

17:00 minor technical critique: History is not the sum of human experience. Rather, it is the sum of human experience multiplied by the sum of human expression, multiplied again by a certain decay factor.

[@plekkchand]

Please let the world know your equation- particularly the variable that contains the "sum of human expression" in the proper units. You will help us a great deal. It's about time we had a concise equation for "history".

[@BalthasarCarduelis]

@@plekkchand sorry bro, I had the proper units recorded on a wax cylinder but it melted.

[@christinagiannaros9817]

I find it interesting that Iain McGilchrist only mentions right handed people in the two presentations I've watched, I know they represent approx 90% of the population but I'd be interested to know his view on how being lefthanded impacts if there is any difference, r/handers get used for all of the studies i've read due to consistency and theories of language function predominantly residing in the left hem and being variable in around 30% of lefties so they are excluded. His theories don't concur with this view from what I can see.

[@ExtremeBogom]

Great discussion.

[@mpbh6672]

This was awesome

[@Jacob011]

First like, then watch!

[@monstersoftheid4693]

Gilchrist chides readers who bring a modern sensibility to authors whose narratives were fashioned by a passé sensibility. ( "he was a racist, and a sexist, and a...whatever) However, Gilchrist then laments that 'we are trained to distend to things that are not explicit and that are not in the foreground, and actually the interest is going on in the background". A tad schizophrenic--what?

[@colingeorgejenkins2885]

When we realise what enistine done by opening the old door to the hive how the mind of the child was before ?

[@robertsmuggles6871]

Split personality. Can you see yourself in this image ?

[@yassinemotaouakkil3530]

Ian McGilchrist needs to read Bjorn Lomborg

[@Ebb0Productions]

why?

[@plaguedoct0r]

"Everything has an asymmetrical neronal structure. Why?" Umm...because having two of the exact same thing in the brain would be useless? That would be like having two arseholes. But holy shit he's saying shit I've been thinking. I'm schizophrenic and this is fitting the bill really well.

[@classiqueliberal8576]

You have two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, two hands, two legs, two gonads... Having two of the exact same thing can be redundant, but it is not "useless." Much of our anatomy is symmetrical while much of it is not...

[@plaguedoct0r]

@@classiqueliberal8576 Eyes, nostrils, arms and legs have obvious functional purposes for being mirrored. The same cannot be said for brain functions, and therefore you have not provided a single argument against anything I said.

[@plaguedoct0r]

@@taranperry5013 Do you mean to imply that parts of the brain get mirrored and slightly altered?

[@TaranPerry]

@@plaguedoct0r yea fam. It doesn't explain the increase in brain size but if some confounding variable( like increase in body size) or something genetic causes an increase in size, then the "rebellion" against symmetry could be a factor in evolving consciousness

[@davekohler5957]

Haha, this kid believes in man made global warming... This kid needs to look at world history to find the truth about global temperatures.

[@veeshan6164]

You spared me the trouble to say it. Thumbs up

[@PieterPatrick]

Uhm, we did nothing wrong, we didn't schrew up the future of our kids. We do not need to change our behavior or feel any guilt. It doesn't even matter because it is not our problem but that of our kids. And most important: You can sleep well.

[@davekohler5957]

Let's say the myth of man made global warming is true, is it really a bad thing?

[@veeshan6164]

@@davekohler5957 Great channel of a skeptic : kzbin.infovideos he makes a pretty convincing case.

[@Jacob011]

He actually didn't say anything of the sort. Just FYI.