The Mystery of Consciousness: Dr. Iain McGilchrist’s Keynote at Kinross House (2024)

[@niallkenny2506]

One of the great minds of our time!

[@MattGray_Chelsoph]

utterly agreed.

[@ruhysoraya1245]

What an amazing mind ...the world is much more elevated for his coming. God Bless his soul!!

[@MattGray_Chelsoph]

This is rock 'n roll! Cracking a beer and soaking this right in, thank you so much for this :) And yes, Iain, you should dare say "soul".

[@dianadinuzzo]

simply BRILLIANT!

[@davidfarrall]

Grateful thanks to Iain McGilchrist for this keynote speech and may he continue to reveal the wondrous mysteries of our most precious organ.

[@estellepositti9055]

Superbly thought provoking. Thank you

[@davidfarrall]

Iain McGilchrist has become a poet and philosopher of Neuroscience in modern times. He brings in so many areas of Science in his work and his mapping of left versus right Brain/Mind is prescient.

[@davidfarrall]

it seems like the left and right Brain hemispheres are continually checking on each other, simultaneous cooperation and competition then occurring. This is beautiful Evolutionary Neuroscience and Iain is delineating and paring back the depths of this.

[@shahlaahy4372]

Brilliant putting into words the impossible!❤

[@Akareyon]

I went in blind and read Behave and Master&Emissary back to back, have watched plenty McGilchrist lectures & interviews since so the Sapolsky <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3350">55:50</a> rib was wild. I so hope to see both of them in dialogue one day.

[@nathanhassallpoetry]

"Attention is a moral act... and attention changes the world. If you attend to it in a certain way, you see certain things. If you attend in another way you see quite different things and therefore attention helps, our consciousness helps, to bring into existence the experiential world, which is the only world that we can ever know." I speak a lot about how a poet has a "mode of perception" and it changes how we pay attention to the world. The more concisely we pay attention: to the rough texture of a tree, the sound of a river, the colours and impressions we receive from the world, the better we are at putting it into poetry. A poem is, in some senses, a phenomenological act. I'll make a video on this and put it on my KZbin channel. Now it's time to dive into the rest of the conversation for further research. Cheers!

[@clumsydad7158]

perception is reality, and part of how we reformulate human societies

[@MattGray_Chelsoph]

reality is reality. perception is information, I'd suggest.

[@aartigandhi962]

superb. thanks a lot

[@fernanda_carcamo]

He's a gift to the world🤩

[@mezzo4920]

Consciousness is knowing and not knowing at the same time.

[@ajghost20]

Attention as a Quantum tuning fork ser!! 🙏🏼

[@nutz4knitz]

I would like his insight on the people who suffer attention deprivation, who usually end up searching holistically for remedies

[@sean2662]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="181">3:01</a> "Nothing worth reading has ever been written on it [consciousness]" imagine that consciousness is an object that has been written on and this would have a similar meaning. The there is in what can be seen through it not what can be seen about it.

[@sean2662]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="644">10:44</a> It's like our project has been to develop a controller that can interface with our big brothers game and we've probably done about as well as a child could be expected. As if human consciousness is an act of love. A fish breaking the surface of the water and seeing land and sky throwing down a quantum how-do-you-do.

[@davidfarrall]

Iain is asking important questions about the nature of differences between the Brain hemispheres. He uses powerful analogies to demonstrate these juxtapositions and interactions.

[@PromoMIAR]

❤ ImcG

[@NuyKoom-ti2fb]

Dear Iain, please discuss consciousness with Spira or Kastrup

[@bradrandel1408]

🦋🕊🌹

[@herminepursch2470]

I've had 4 major strokes on the bottom part of my left side of the brain it left me paralyzed on my right side for a short time

[@cheri238]

🙏❤️

[@sean2662]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="742">12:22</a> can there not be the germ of y in x

[@newpilgrim]

Wonderful! Hear, hear🔔In Buddhism, it's called fabrication via the five aggregates.

[@goldwhitedragon]

Said nothing buddhists haven't been saying for 2000 years.