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David McIlroy on Iain McGilchrist's Worldview and Natural Theology
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Christopher Alexander’s insights about the built world have surprising parallels with the insights of Iain McGilchrist about the brain hemispheres.
McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher, and literary scholar who revisited and reinterpreted the roles of the tw... See more
The Nature Of Order - Webinar Series — Building Beauty
Much of our capacity to ‘use’ the world depends, not on an attempt to open ourselves as much as possible to apprehending whatever it is that exists apart from ourselves, but instead on apprehending whatever I have brought into being for myself, my representation of it. This is the remit of the left hemisphere, and would appear to require a selectiv
... See moreIain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"Attention changes what kind of a thing comes into being for us: in that way, it changes the world."
– Dr. Iain McGilchrist
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
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one hemisphere's idea of truth is likely to be more fruitful than the other's. As we have seen in Part I, the aspect of reality revealed by the left hemisphere must be contextualised by being taken up into the broader, and deeper, overarching vision available to the right hemisphere; alas, when the left hemisphere takes the lead, it leads us astray
... See moreMaria Popova • The Healing Power of Nature and Beauty: Florence Nightingale on Expediting Recovery from Illness and Burnout
