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Ep. 5 - Iain McGilchrist and Stephen Blackwood: On Finding Ourselves Within the Whole

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The Importance of Intuitions

i'm not arguing a case for any particular religion, and i don't go to a church or anything like that. But it would be very hard to understand our culture if you don't understand the legacy of its primary religion in the west - christianity. So i think that awareness that there is more in this world than necessariy, can be summed up in anything that we can write, propositionally, in language. To beware that our intuitions are not just they can be false, of course, but then so can reasoning. Reasoning can lead you to very false conclusions. It hardly needs to be demonstrated, but it's very obvious.

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