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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
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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
The human brain does information acquisition, pattern recognition, and goal direction. Give the goal direction system a goal and you give the pattern recognition system a purpose and the information acquisition system a target. Cortisol levels drop. It’s why, Lion believes, everyone needs a mission.
Steven Kotler • Last Tango in Cyberspace: A Novel
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 moreIf one had to characterise the difference overall, is something like this. Experience is forever in motion, ramifying and unpredictable. In order for us to know anything at all, that thing must have enduring properties. If all things flow and one can never step into the same river twice– Heraclitus’s phrase is, I believe, a brilliant evocation of t
... See moreIain McGilchrist • Ways of Attending: How Our Divided Brain Constructs the World
What do I mean by ‘betweenness'? Think about the nature of music. Music does not exist in one particular note – which is in itself meaningless; or in a lot of such single notes, each in itself meaningless. I am tempted to say it exists more in the spaces than in the notes: the spaces between successive notes in pitch that creates the melody, the sp
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