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Philip Pullman Meets Iain McGilchrist - The Meaning of Life

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The God of the Left Hemisphere

William Blake said you only truly see things when you see them with the eye of imagination. We need to know the whole Gestalt, the whole surrounding context of something before we know it properly. For real science to make discoveries requires a sense of beauty and form. This is another mistake, like the idea that philosophy and science have been separated. There is no war between science and the arts; there's just a discussion between these two departments.

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