John Cleese Meets Iain McGilchrist - On Consciousness and Creativity
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The Great Enemy of Religion and Science
I think you sort of hyphenate representation. You take reality and then you re-present it in the form that is acceptable to the left hemisphere. And what it suggests is it is present again when it no longer is present. I mean it's a claim of oxymoron representation, but really it's the best the left hemisphere can do. It has an abstract idea of something and it puts it in place as the thing. And I don't know what you think. But nowadays when I listen to a lot of public discourse, I think what has happened to people's trust and experience? What's happened to that intelligent grasp of what's going on around them? With human understanding
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