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Our delusions about reality | Iain McGilchrist

Philosophy For Our Times

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The Cosmos Isn't Made of Things

The world looks to me to be made very much of things. And then we have physics that tells us, or seems to tell us, that the world is made out of particles and fields. So what's wrong with those two pictures of reality? There's nothing wrong with the idea of things. I'm very content that people should go on thinking there are things and treating them as such. But ultimately, i believe that all is in process, that, as heraclitus said, everything flows.

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