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Parts and Whole, Science and Intuition, Left Brain and Right Brain with Dr. Iain McGilchrist

Consciousness Is All There Is

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The Great Development of the Human Brain Is Inhibition

The whole brain is in fact a filter so it's not certainly not making consciousness nor is it simply passively like a radio set transmitting consciousness but it's sculpting molding filtering consciousness and William James had this wonderful image he said it is like my voice I have a voice which is peculiar to me but it only exists because air from my lungs comes out through my mouth. There is a there's a barrier in the larynx which which inhibits some of the flow and it's that that causes me to be. The frontal lobes are above all about filtering and stopping immediate responses and therefore make it possible for us to live our daily life but maybe when this happens the frontal lobes relatively shut

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