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How Our Brains Model Reality & the True Nature of the World | Iain McGilchrist

Hidden Forces

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Hidden Forces Podcast - Part 2 - Dr. McGillcrest

Dr. McGillcrest: We have an inherent level of abstraction from the get go, because you're taking reality and translating it then re-creating into the world. And that period between translation and recreation creates the opportunity for misconstruing the reality from which you derived your symbols. Who or what are we? What is it that all the different mythologies of the world try and speak to in this non-explicit way to get us back to Wittgenstein?

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