The Faraday Institute for Science & Religion, Q&A on The Matter with Things with Iain McGilchrist

The Faraday Institute for Science & Religion in Cambridge, Q&A on The Matter with Things with Iain McGilchrist.
Chair: Christopher Oldfield, Research Associate at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.
Questions were submitted by members of an interdisciplinary group, which had gathered to read The Matter With Things in Cambridge and online from May to July 2023.
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[@here_now_I]

I wish more and more people in the world open to such views on life and spirituality.

[@cheri238]

The unfolding of the flowering of the blooms is ever changing, and so it is with consciousness. It is never stagnant. Life becomes knowing the unknowable as with god in all elements of nature singing with attention of the present moment. 🙏❤️🌎🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵

[@DreamingOfABetterDay]

Boundaries is an interesting concept for me . I think the more present i become, the more my Boundaries unfold.

[@WalkingInNature23]

Thank you for establishing the meant meaning of your words to explicitly bring out the implicit in your encounter with other perceptions.

[@steveygee1]

Wonderful.

[@anthonydavinci7985]

Quantum physics is only a description ,merely a part of field mechanics. Quantum's, bumping particles is filled with leaps of faith. FIELD mechanics is explanation. Please compare them. Linking, JUXTAPOSING Iain's Marvelous ideas to Field theory is very exciting.

[@DreamingOfABetterDay]

Life is not a freak, it is of planned design. But the whole titillation is the unknown own.

[@DreamingOfABetterDay]

All the evils of the world are a natural unfolding of awakening

[@DreamingOfABetterDay]

19:55. I find being surrounded by nature can be a very loving, grandiose experience or it can get me in touch with my hurts and confusions, agitated sometimes. It opens up space for me to get in touch with the me that is suppressed on the day to day grind. I guess, maybe that is grandiose on another scale ⚖️.

[@DreamingOfABetterDay]

Yes. 27:40.

[@tomgreene1843]

The brains are something used by the living person....like the limbs are used ...having their different uses but not being given to the same -even if sometimes- similar functions. Some of our brains do things better than other parts do. Surely this is likely?

[@TheDAT9]

Ian Mc Gilchrist and Alex Jones, on the outside, chalk and cheese. But they are both accepting of the Spirit.

[@akaashrishi]

follow up questions IS are we conscious of time

[@lizparker9090]

IF you cut off parts How can there ever be a Whole ?

[@DreamingOfABetterDay]

Chisme; I like this weed. Thank you

[@DreamingOfABetterDay]

Is pancitest about patience ?m for me patience is about being accepting. Accepting about where you are at in any giving moment. Frozen and fridged or flowing in acceptance

[@DreamingOfABetterDay]

Gosh Ian, where are you at? Nothing new in a while. I need some stimulating talk about God and Body, and so on and so forth. You give me a bit of reprieve in times of turmoil. ❤

[@DreamingOfABetterDay]

Who looks up when you're living in a concrete jungle. Or if no one has ever told you to look up and that there is something to see. I moved to Alaska when I was 6, I believe, and the state flag is the Big Dipper, and for good reason. You look up and you see.

[@akaashrishi]

LOOK! Alain de Bottom is next!

[@DreamingOfABetterDay]

God doesn't want to control everything. If he did he would. And life would be veru different for earth. Because he loves earth

[@akaashrishi]

no rules no principles no containment - "close to nature" "colossal disconnect" - do you want to know what poetry he likes?

[@uiPublic]

All hinge on human brain while it's immaterial for God, so drop arguments controls & the likes, but Purpose yes to be ultimately.

[@uiPublic]

Stereo vision, hearing to think about a headship for Nature's maybe product by two Parents.

[@akaashrishi]

what the ruckus is gilchrist talking about>?? stressed anxious pessimistic him - class aggro from London

[@akaashrishi]

5,32 man .. scary stuff - in the making chucking about depression and frontal lobes when he has enjoyed the degradation of his class's brain after COVID "depression rates at unprecedently levels" = excited. it's not bad. so what - 100 years where are they then?

[@akaashrishi]

see - Oxford wafflers.

[@akaashrishi]

space invasion houses

[@john_says_hi]

imagine being responsible for starting a war in Bosnia.

[@akaashrishi]

schematically underwritten - he thought of the word schematic and then schematic again =searching for science in India... mindset followed by slagging off .. ordinary people ... 1984 .. brave new world .. suffering humanity - positive v negative... happy amongst themselves eating well and regularly in jobs in london and oxford ..

[@akaashrishi]

mapped brain

[@johnp2115]

"Promo sm"

[@robertanderson3905]

GOLDEN BEE,S CRISTAL BALL,S AND COCAINE. AS TO HOW WE GOT HEAR.

[@akaashrishi]

they will crash housing market

[@akaashrishi]

do not keep this inside you

[@akaashrishi]

how young how spiteful his medication is?.... Dao

[@Neilgs]

There is NO systemic correlation between schizophrenia and autism spectrum challenges. This part is pure bunk, and properly dismissed 45 years ago. I m afraid if Iain is making any such analogy he is egregiously and astonishingly wrong!

[@COLDCHEMICALpresents]

Have you read his books?

[@akaashrishi]

old git qualified depression