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Philip Pullman Meets Iain McGilchrist - The Meaning of Life

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I'm a Passionate Defender of Science

I've been watching a few various interviews that you've done. And I appreciate that it is as long as the Bible. It's a lot of work, 10 years. But I've also heard that you can do an elevator pitch. Shall I? So I'm going to ask you just to explain or telling us what it is about. Yes, it follows on in a way from the Master's Chemistry, but it takes things much further. Effectively, what concerns me is the way we think. The great philosopher, Ian Whitehead, said, as we think we live. One half of the brain has evolved and specialized to enable us to manipulate the world rather than to understand it

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