A Revolution in Thought Dr Iain McGilchrist
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- A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis
It is often remarked that though it may seem that we face numerous global crises of different kinds - environmental, social, political, cultural, economic, psychological, and so on - these crises are interrelated. The term ‘metacrisis’ has been invented to describe this predicament. However these crises are not merely adventitiously interrelated because each has an impact on and reinforces each of the others - though that may be true - but because they share roots at a deeper level in a way of thinking about ourselves and the world. What are these roots? Hemisphere theory, deeply grounded as it is in Darwinism and subsequent neuroscientific research, shows us that a new, far more complex, and more nuanced, appraisal of the bipartite brain - the product of the last 30 years of research - brings new insights into the human condition. There are vitally important clues to the understanding of human cognition and motivation embodied in the structure of the brain. These clues help explain why certain apparently unrelated phenomena tend to occur together, why outcomes that appear paradoxical are in reality predictable, and why many attempts to remedy them will prove inadequate since they are tackling only the manifestations of a problem that we need to address at its root - both in the psyche of the individual and that of a civilisation viewed as a whole. ‘Know thyself’ commanded the Delphian oracle: we need urgently to learn to do so, and this synergy of philosophy and neuroscience appears to offer the most promising way.
Dr Iain McGilchrist is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He has been a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature, philosophy, medicine and psychiatry. He is the author of a number of books, but is best-known for The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale 2009); and his book on neuroscience, epistemology and ontology, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World (Perspectiva 2021).
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I kept seeing comments in other forums about Iain McGilchrist and now I have listened to him. WOW. Very broad and deep multidimensional knowledge and wisdom of the world. Thank you. We need to wake up.
You should give his books a read! They're as enjoyable to read as this video is to watch.
I'm grateful for the opportunity to view your lecture. My body even feels better just knowing that these facts have been released into the world so soundly wrapped together. Thank you again
Dr. David Bohm got most of his notions about thought in dialogue with J. Krishnamurti. After watching this, I realize Bohm and Krishnamurti's dialogue series "The Ending of Time" could be renamed "The ending of the left hemisphere." Bohm said that thought cannot propriocept itself and what it's doing and Dr. McGilchrist seems to be adding that even when it can sense what it's doing through retrospecting and seeing that the results are not in alignment with its projections, it "doubles down." That's even worse. I will add, that from my living experience, a mental health crisis often is an opening to what the right brain has to say. Much of the battle is fear of being with so much new information we were not previously privy to, resistance, and inability to have a dialogue between the two hemispheres to bring integration. To me, the crisis is ignoring the right brain for so long, and eventually, there is a crack. It's hard to grapple with all we have missed along the way, all the mistakes, let alone learning to adapt to iteratively having access to the right brain. I've learned this for myself, and as Dr. McGilchrist says, we can only learn this for ourselves. It's not information to be explained but life trying to live with, as, and through us in the present moment. Love this lecture and I'll watch it again soon.
thanks for explaining this i cannot understand what he means
Dr. Iian McGilchrist is the greatest writer in all various fields. He has had the opportunity to gather knowledge with insight and wisdom, the undertaking of a life well done.
Furthermore, his legacy will dance throughout the ages, and for that, we all should bow our heads with deep gratitude.
I do. 👏 👏👏👏👏👏
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This is perhaps the best talk I've heard yet. And the most troubling.
The emphasis at the end on the vital importance of trust reminded me of a quote from the Buddha;
"Trust is the best wealth.".
McGilchrist's scientific work elucidates the wisdom of the ages in a brilliant way.
I started crying .. Such a wise voice with an abundance of divine love and the codes for the human race to understand in order to come back to the track where God put us down in the beginning of our journey in this mysterious and beautiful world we were born into
Your "human race" lives next door to you. You meet 'em yet? Why cosmic or global tears? Maybe the guy or gal next door is a crying shame too? Why not find out about the human race "in your face"? I know the number of people "I like". I know a lot more people who are, and quite certainly will always remain largely "unknown" to me.
Don't think "all people" and that includes "everyone" as being "unified as a whole"..
WE cannot exist and there is no "public" we BELIEVE in. Really, where did the "private" go then? Back to your neighbors. Are they armed?....lol
Feels as Masterpiece, deeply felt presentation delivered in such a musical voice
Excellent work! Thank you for this clarity, Dr. McGilchrist. Everyone needs to hear this, discuss this, think about this. We need a new approach, a new operating system for civilization, and we need it yesterday. This is an excellent start along that path. Love this!
what a dynamic 1 hour , so gently packed with light and direction , thank you !
Wonderful and so important. Oh that we all can hear it. Really hear it. Thank you Iain. 🙏
The Master and His Emissary audiobook was beautiful I love listening to bestEnglish language book of literature, history,philosophy,science, anthropology, spiritual, cultural, to say the least.
God bless the effort and dedication you put into creating the book.
Thank you
This is a perfect expression of how psychology and medicine is coming together to help humanity understand our fallen state and what we as individuals and society can all do to help heal our psychic and moral wounds and wrong development. Ian’s brilliant analysis of the functions of each hemisphere of the Brain offers a new way of looking at mankind’s fundamental problems, often now called “the Meta Crisis “and thus help us to better understand how to heal and remedy these many problems humanity faces. He talks about the use of the attention and to help free us from our habitual or mechanical forms of living that are leading to so many problems that are now being called a crisis due to the deviation that will ensue if the problems are not seriously address.
This lecture reminds me how badly I have got to get make to reading again. Time is slipping by and we each have much that needs to be studied and understood. We are here to perform a specific work on ourselves and for the world. We each have got to do our parts if the world is not going to fly to pieces.
We have to stop waisting time and “make hay while the sun still shines bc the night comes when no one will be able to work” as our master so wisely said and warned.
I cannot “like” this enough. Incredible ✨🙏🏽💗 thank you
As we reflect on this speech we filter it through the narratives we hold dear and don't even realise that we are part of "The Machine".
How many of us really are understanding the depth of this rebuke?
Brilliant and I thought it was interesting how the emblem behind him has the caduceus on the left with its weaving of opposites winding together..the right hemisphere..and the divided polarities on the right..the left hemisphere. The pattern seems to be everywhere....
Great upload. Thank you for your rational argumentation, it helps combat the social cognitive-dissonance of today. Cheers all.
Thank you 🤍☯️🖤
Stunning❤
Thank you Iain.
absolutely captivating.
Excellent pulling together of many valuable threads into a coherent perspective on us humans. And yes, troubling, worth great reflection.
which is the troubling part, i can't understand his big words
@@jimorgain63 He is speaking to an audience of academics, so he's using academic language which yes, can feel alienating. Have you tried turning on the subtitles? I often find that seeing difficult words makes it easier to understand, and we can always pause the video while we look them up.
Kick ass! Most excellent. Thank you for standing up for truth.
One of the most generous inspiring insightful and humbling lectures I've had the privilege to listen to. Thank you 🙏
I always enjoy his lectures and interviews, but this latest synthesis is very important and comprehensive on the meta-crisis!
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I am so impressed with this man and his works. Thank you.
The Good Doktor summed up so much in so little time. I relish the fact Iain reminds all at Darwin College (!) how little they know and just how much Dunning-Krueger they still have on the souls of their shoes. The Master of ceremonies clearly had not read or understood Iain's werk....ah, well. I do hope he does some podcasts with the little people in the freedom/health movement in the future. They would respond passionately to much of what you say, Iain. Much Love and Admiration
Thank you so much Dr. McGilchrist. A wonderful insight.
Brilliant as usual. I always pick up new insights here and there; implications from nuanced to colossal.
Brilliant. I would love to see Iain and Eric Weinstein have a conversation.
Shame Roger Scruton isn't with us any more
Ian has such an incredible soul. His thought is so very deep, profound. It has such substance. Especially in comparison with the focus of most academics these days, whos work I find worse than unhelpful. It lacks meaning and does not help me or others around me, while Ian’s thought is a breath of fresh air. It reminds me why I study the classics and ancient world.
Captivating.👌🏽
Absolutely brilliant …seeing how brain function affects”everything”..physical, psychological,spiritual..
Thank you - this was brilliant. Much to think about and bring forward into my own work.
Amazing insights ❤
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Well done Sir!
Thank you for sharing your insight. Sum and substance interesting. Exquisite vernacular enjoyed the most, masterfully weaved as delivery substrate.
Wise and wonderful
I whole heartly agree and hope we as the gate keepers to the future rise in our calling and restore the whole of humanity back to itself a balance of mind and heart. neither of which can be successful without the other. Thank you, Iain McGilchrist, for your loyalty, tireless devotion to point humanity toward our healing and the choices only we can make. Let us rise and shine in this spotlight we now hold upon the world stage. Love, peace to all
Illuminating, thank you.
The “creative nothing “ of Max Stirner: “The Unique and Its Property “,1844/2017 Landstreicher translation is still as good as it gets. Philosophy ended with that book: the elites just can’t “ handle it.” So this noise will continue.
Absolutely brilliant! But I don't think the fellow from the collage heard a word did he? A thoughtful presentation!?! We can only do our best to love them all to death😊
This is the most important speech of the last 50 years.
what is he saying? i don't understand
No, that speech comes after this one.
@@jimorgain63 I think he is basically saying that too much science and technology is driving us crazy. we live in an environment that is too technological and it isn’t good for us. We need the gentle rhythms and richness of nature for our mental and physical health, but also for the health of our civilization.
DR. Iain McGilchrist i could listen to you forever. I aspire to atleast put some of your wisedom into practice.
Thank U hx
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How do we trust when interactions are words on a screen?
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We shoudn"t, we need the windows 👀 to the soul for that.
Trusting the closest thing to the truth is no trust at all. We have a lot of work on the believability of ethics before we can truly stand up as a society again.
This part of the talk reminded me of spending time with my father when I was a child. Upon seeing this, I felt compelled to send him this message: "I credit your words about not telling lies and being trustworthy for saving me from making a lot of bad decisions that would have caused a lot of harm to myself and others. From every-day decisions to major life decisions. Regretful decisions that I see people make all the time and try to be a good example/counsel for ' (I went on to give my every-day examples. Being in the medical field, of insurance companies and institutions putting the boot on the neck of care providers to maximize profit at the expense of patients and anyone else involved.) I still made a lot of crappy decisions and continue to make difficult decisions seemingly every day. Imagine if I didn't get this message early.
The deceptive skill of the enemy is boundless. And I mean Set Theory, and Computability. We are prepared only because we got the numbers, not by any means because we got the imagination. I stand by this.
Our most important living philosopher.
Well he's made me consider. Something is happening "now" I know not what but it certainly is... Thanks Ian
I wonder if there is a hidden trick going on, could it be that the right hemisphere has intentionally let the left hemisphere run a mock simply as a joke and a game in order for the left hemisphere to adapt. This reminds me of the ending of the old classic film “Time Bandits” when god (the master) turns up and says “hey what do you think of evil my own personal creation”, yet in the film the character evil thinks he’s all knowing and god definitely didn’t create him.
Great lecture. If only it can be heard by the right brain, instead of the wrong one 😊
That’s quite a simple yet profound idea: That defectors of the social contract seemingly do well in the short term. Why is it so easy to slip into a life of subversion? Is true excellence a threat to the defectors of society, thus is it always gamed against eventually in any society? Can the defectors really be redeemed or is there an inescapable degree of permanence to unknown consequences of one’s conscious actions?
You can’t have a Revolution in thought. You can only have different thoughts. The Revolution is to dissolve the thoughts themselves.
Did it take getting a PHD to spur you into your Revolution? Or, a divorce?
iain sounds much more like intellectuals of the past - back when they still used both parts of their brains.
Have fun doing good in the world Dr M. Perhaps have a look at the Ten Principles of a new International Security and Development Architecture proposed by the Schiller Institute.
Can hemispheric imbalance help explain psychosis and schizophrenia? If so then wouldn’t that suggest therapeutic activities that balance hemispheric activity?
not sure about that but there is a treatment called EMDR which is used for PTSD, which involves recalling the said trauma while making left to right eye movements.
I am spellbound by his elucidation…..the end is near or is it just change? Once we were Australopithecenes weren’t we? We changed. We are always changing with the world around us. The selfish gene cannot be stopped.
the worst is when Military Recreation has been grotesquely perverse... that was the cruellest "domestic war-fare"
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Yes ❤
Now I a fourfold vision see
And a fourfold vision is given to me
Tis fourfold in my supreme delight
And threefold in soft Beulahs night
And twofold always. May God us keep
From Single vision and Newton's sleep.
How does this effect a left handed brain?
Is it reversed ?
Awesome talk 👊💥😁
I am left handed and it feels like it is. I feel like an alien living around robots willing to go through any trouble that allows them to keep slaving away perpetually with no meaning or guarantee and allows them to be controlled in potentially disproportionate ways. Rules with no meaning besides existing as tools for control. Things like not teaching kids finances in school is ruining lives and should be in schools is something so frigging obvious and would save more people than peanut butter. I see the beauty and the little things that make life better and get so frigging mad when someone disregards it. It makes me feel like they are super ignorant.
Edit: I live for those little things and sense they don’t mean as much to others as they did 20 years ago. It makes things feel much more dull.
Dear Iain: the world is as the believer’s belief and/or understanding. You are looking at 8 billion. As a fish ask where is the water, we too are asking where is the true left or right.
Thank you for reviling the truth about our nature and maybe we can change our minds in prayer., be born again and get filled with the Holy Spirit and turn around. I will
As an observer and as you said clearly stated in your beautiful books, we are all divided to the left and /or to the right, oftentimes we are not aware. We are confused and we believe that is the truth.
If change has to take place the left has to fund the right, against their self interest. Maybe they would.
Non profit organizations are trying but there is more energy and enthusiasm is money. So the tool maker will divide and drive the culture than the deep thinker.
God bless you and your family
Dear: Iain McGilchrist
I loved the Master and His Emissary audio book. Beautiful language as if it’s a book of literature, history, philosophy, science, anthropology, spiritual and cultural to say the least.
For me it’s an awa to listen and understand the humanity and the effort and dedication you put into creating the book.
Thank you
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I agree with almost all his critiques, but my two problems with it is that he distinguishes society from Nature, but society is also Nature, a manifestation of it, what is happening now in the world is just a more complexified version with what already happens inside our bodies, cells, molecules, all society is a natural flux just like anything else in the universe, so there is no reason at all to complain about society anymore.
The left hemisphere domination comes from how we see the world, how we see Nature, when we see Nature as something cold and scary, we feel fear, hate, necessity for control, and everything that was mentioned by him in this video comes from this methaphysical conception. A conception which makes us feel methaphysically incomplete and detached from Nature, but actually we are all pure, society is pure, there is nothing really corrupt about it, and this necessity of "correcting and fighting for a better society" is what drives to all this chaos. We already have everything, no need to change the world, this opens a methaphysical self consciousness, which we can feel inside ourselves, this sense of peace ends the necessity of control and then we can "correct" society, not because we have to, but because we enjoy the process itself.
The past wasnt better, humanity today is materially prospering and intellectually prospering, there has never so many people in the world caring about knowledge and philosophy, there are aways more to discover, more books to read, more educational content we had never direct access to. The advent of videogames, movies, series, anime, manga and comics show to us the wonders of human imagination, we get immersed in these beautiful worlds and increases our creativity and openness to the Methaphysical, something that almost everyone in the past had never access to, children get consumed by this, their amazing childhood, which increases their spiritual vision, their right brain hemisphere. Literature is abundant today and it is pure right brain, it is a way of contemplation, it is much more than mere entertainment, we learn from it.
Most of this evidence of how people behave comes from the internet, which doesnt really represent who they are and how they behave in the real world, also there is much more to internet than mainstream politics. If people in the 1740s had internet, they would behave the same way, internet reveals the collective consciousness, which will aways be this way as long as they keep thinking the way they think.
Spirituality is growing, philosophy is slowing becoming more spiritual, metamodernism is coming, history corrects itself.
Humanity's future is extremely bright, we only have to cross this transition, this spiritual revolution for our spiritual, psychological, emotional and mental lives also become better, like it was with others.
Students will say desired all our Feet 1ST! Shared Thy "i" AM and came with conversations given just for all thy "WHO GIVES GLORIFICATION"? Why? Nor How can even "Why" can exist in front? Keep watch!
Students will say what is an Observer? A little child longing to LEARN from "WHO AM I "? Students...who are ye ALL? Thy shared "i" AM.
Why has my previous critical comment been deleted?
People mock me all the time when I tell them that the brain is a Mandelbrot set complex morphology. So I guess I understand what cantor understood… what Louis Pasteur understood… how Gregor Mendel felt.
Time for me to leave.
Perhaps better to reframe as "time for me to share" ... this awesome insight i'm blessed with seeing -- and perhaps channeling into this world ...
Excellent video, fascinating but please stick to the Science. 😄😄😄
Makes me wonder if racism (and therefore the illusion of race or even caste, class, et al.) is a left-hemisphere phenomenon for those that value utility and power above all else.
Is like..."Why should I choose between who's and who's"? While sitting...watching shared Feet! Students what is shared Feet? Students as a little Child "i" with say, all the Feet resting upon? Indeed! Students "i" AM an Observer!
There’s only one thing for it, complete left hemispherectomy.
Go visit the temple of heaven to pray first... Go North and see the great wall 😁
AI and abusive editing of comments are against the Community Guidelines of TH-cam, this is offensive and disgusting manipulation.
what is he saying, implicit, explicit, we need penguinz to explain this, i feel dumb
Are you still looking to understand things? I would recommend something like chatgpt, you can copy and paste the transcript from the video and ask for summarised and simpler explanations
I’d try his audiobook versions of The Master & His Emissary, and The Matter with Things. Simply too much to unpack in a 1 hour lecture
Maybe you know better
He's promoting his old 'dogma' that has largely 'debunked'. He offers HIS INTERPRETATIONS,, of "the facts that speak for themselves" so he is a hypocrite, but he doesn't UNDERSTAND that. Of course not. He is 'writer' who is trained as a 'psychiatrist', one of 'the experts', who all give a diametrically opposed ;interpretive account' of a killer's 'sanity' in a court of law. They still get paid. Okay. Buy his books and throw them in with the others. Have fun.. He began with a"Greek oracle' PROPHESY' and fast cut to what?...the usual...The brain extends into the central nervous system. Think if a central processor with no data' obtained from the mind of a programmer. The programmer invents a numerical binary system to give instructions to the "brain', which depends on "random access memory' to the exterior environment where the host organism must maintain a homeostasis or :VANISH"...We can't keep up with "being aware" of how we are breathing, how we are moving, how we respond to a voice command directed towards the ears, etc.
All we can do is give our own description of it. Explain how you think. You can't. But you can try and do it. We do alright with others when we skip the details and get to the point, yes?
Climate destruction is real. It appears to be 'non-linear'..We can see its form but we can't see it taking shape, but we know it will arrive so we do what? Wait until we "ee the whites of their eyes then shoot"?
Okay, then retreat? To where? You can make border walls around your country to keep the two-eyed enemies out but you can't see the eye of the storm coming...No one will be able to hold on to a "real estate"...
Talk is cheap. A lot of it is free speech .....of the 'free-wheeling kind'....Yahoo!
What is his dogma and how has it been debunked? These ramblings don’t strike me as any kind of rebuke
How adorable. That’s why shrinks are useless. Get the lint out your own belly button. Bla bla bla
I pity you.
Nothing, Absorbed by Nothingness, The Absense of Everything, Consciousness the Presence of Everything but Nothingness.
There is exactly Zero need, want, nor any new information going beyond, as Mathematics Doesn't Exist there, there's your Random Universe Generator, whatever the Potential the two could touch? You do not want to mess with. ;-)
We own AWARENESS, never Consciousness.
why is this cryptofascist still allowed a platform
Iian strikes me as terribly naive
How so
he never discusses whether his theory comes from the untrustworthy hemisphere of his own brain. that seems like a naive mistake to make. right?@@SisypheanRoller
@@suzettedarrow8739 In a talk of less than one hour you cannot cover absolutely everything you might want to say, that's not naiveté, that's being short of time.
@@philmathieu1017 Fair. May I ask, what do you think he’d say? What if his own theory comes from his own left hemisphere?
@@suzettedarrow8739He’s not saying that all theory is useless, but that it must be grounded in a sense of awe, compassion, humility about one can know, etc. Aka informed by the right hemisphere’s mode of understanding. I recommend his books! He’s a very clear writer.
Thank you mr mcg
But in general you are good, and have good intent unlike many others.
You have misunderstanding! You talk about personal identity and consciousness type one and both of them are generated by self concept.
😂😂😂 A "College" named after a failed "scientist" with a disproven "abstract" 😂😂😂
Go watch the talk again. This time listen. Then repeat.
@@TrueDem0n1I haven't watched it and my comment stands on its own. I will watch it now. I'm familiar with Dr. Michael Egnor's and others work, especially Sperry's, on split brain surgery and its implications. I look forward to hearing. Thanks.
@@soulcells Thanks for honesty. And as Iain says (paraphrasing): Just because we got one wrong answer, does not mean that the question should not be asked again.
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Nope. Just deftness.