Right and left hemispheres become hollowed out. Space becomes literally two dimensional. Time becomes split up into series of insdancs. And emotion becomes superficial. The timean the whole repertoire becomes one of irritability, disgust, jokiness, but actually no deep ampathy at all. People who have damaged their don't understand human situations. They can't interpret what people mean or anything that's not entirely explicit. Cognitive intelligence is much more dependent on the right hemisphere than it is on the left.
Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and author of The Master and His Emissary and The Matter with Things. In the episode we discuss:
- The differences between the left and right brain hemispheres and how they shape your perspective - The 4 pathways to understanding - science, reason, intuition & imagination - How the big problems we face including the assault on Nature, destruction of Culture are all related
We also talk about the significance of morality and the intersection of science and religion.