"...the intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant, but has forgotten the gift."
"Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist describes the real differences between the left and right halves of the human brain. It's not simply "emotion on the right, reason on the left," but something far more complex and interesting. A Best of the Web talk from RSA Animate.
"Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist describes the real differences between the left and right halves of the human brain. It's not simply "emotion on the right, reason on the left," but something far more complex and interesting. A Best of the Web talk from RSA Animate.
Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and writer. Before he came to
medicine, he was a literary scholar -- and his work on the brain is
shaped by a deep questioning of the role of art and culture. As his
official bio puts it: "He is committed to the idea that the mind and
brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible
context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and
of the wider human culture in which they arise -- the culture which
helps to mould, and in turn is moulded by, our minds and brains."
His recent book The Master and His Emissary
explores the nature of the brain's two hemispheres (the right is the
"master," in McGilchrist's terms). How have our two hemispheres evolved
to relate -- and how did their relationship create our consciousness,
our culture, and our ability to understand our own brains?"
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