"What is a human being? What are we doing here?" "We don't know what the world is any more, and we don't know how we relate," he says. He suggests that's because we don't understand the structure of reality. And i hint at some of this at the end of the book in the epilogue."
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.