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Join for me part one of an incredible talk about the mind, the brain, and how your brain sees the world, with renowned neuropsychiatrist and author, Dr. Iain McGilchrist. We discuss his books, The Master and His Emissary, and The Matter with Things, his career, and how he became interested in the differences between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss part II next week! Dr.
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One was that we decontextualized things. Another was that we made explicit what had to remain implicit. And the third was that we made what had originally been unique entirely general in its nature, as though we could have found it anywhere else by formula.
“The reason we'd got the wrong answers was we'd asked the wrong question, the machine question, what does it do? But the brain is not a machine. The brain is part of a conscious organism, a living being, and it approaches the world in two different ways.”
“attention is not just another cognitive function. It is the very way in which you dispose your consciousness towards the world. And depending on how you dispose it is what it is you find there.”
“The left hemisphere's attention builds a world out of pieces that are known, fixed, certain, disconnected from everything else, decontextualised, disembodied, entirely explicit, and lifeless.”
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