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Our delusions about reality | Iain McGilchrist

Philosophy For Our Times

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Understanding Life Non Reductively

In order to understand the parts of the organism, you somehow have to understand the whole. So you can't understand what the heart is by just looking at it as an isolated organ. We only understand a thing by taking it apart and seeing how wholes they can go to compose. And something of the same can be said about matter and consciousness.

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