John Cleese Meets Iain McGilchrist - On Consciousness and Creativity
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What Do You Mean One of the Great Humorists?
The left hemisphere doesn't understand non-literal meaning. It tends to take everything very very literally. But the other thing about you know this little minded thing is that it is a matter of it must mean this out of context. And I sometimes make the point that context can completely reverse meaning. That's for the irony. Well irony is usually doing that. Exactly the opposite. The street jacket of language is taken and made rich and open and imaginative, which is what you do. In my life you know I'm as grateful to people like you for making me laugh over you know however many decades that's the great poet.
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