23min chapter

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Iain McGilchrist PHD - NAVIGATING BEYOND MATERIALISM

Chasing Consciousness

CHAPTER

The Journey from Literature to Medicine

The speaker discusses their transition from studying literature to exploring the science of the mind and body. They criticize the abstracting of literature and highlight the importance of embodied and implicit meaning. The chapter also explores the differences between the right and left hemispheres of the brain and their roles in understanding reality and implicit meaning.

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