The Brain & Culture: A Symbiotic Relationship – Dr Iain McGilchrist
The Weekend University
The Distancing of the Human Brain
There was a change in the frontal lobes in the brain at this time. There was clearly some coming together of different people with different genetic and cultural histories that somehow caused what the frontal labes are best at, which is being able to stand back from the world. So for a civilization to flourish, you really do need this distancing, which should never be asundering. And so it is with reality that when you're too fused with what's going on around you, you miss much of what’s going on. In fact, as i say, actually makes a deeper connection possible,. Which is why you get the beginnings of empasy in this greece civilization
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