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243 - Dr. Iain McGilchrist - Beyond Materialism - The Matter With Things

The Symbolic World

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The Cosmos and the Meaning of the Sacred

I hope about the so called building blocks. I mean, about things lit time and space and matter and consciousness. And then i i change the way in which we think. If you let that tension between two things pulling apart go, the string would just collapse,. There would be no arrow, and there would be no music. So we kneed those things together. We've swallowed this very simplicitic, mechanistic ideologya Which iam afraid, only leads to a state of anxiety, fear, loss o the sense of meaning and cohesion.

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