"I sweated blood over it because i didn't want to betray the subject," he says. "Everything that i said, because it was in language, was going to be intrinsically limited" The final substantive chapter before the epilogue took him longer per word than any other piece of work she's ever written. He writes: "You speak about it and you reduce something irreducible."
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.