The purpose of education is to enable people to make reasonable judgments. And a reasonable judgment is never simply the following f rules. The first has become the predato of this kind of machine logic. You could program a machine just to follow these steps at the expense ofthe the other, which has become like a hunted animal.
Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and author of The Master and His Emissary and The Matter with Things. In the episode we discuss:
- The differences between the left and right brain hemispheres and how they shape your perspective - The 4 pathways to understanding - science, reason, intuition & imagination - How the big problems we face including the assault on Nature, destruction of Culture are all related
We also talk about the significance of morality and the intersection of science and religion.