In the first part of your book, you speak about the seven portals to knowledge. How would you how would you encourage a reader or listener to think about those? Well, what i wantyed to do as to look separately at the level at which we gain information about the world from and even, to some exent, knowledge of it. The different qualities of attention given by the two hemispheres give rise to two worlds experientially,. which have quite different qualities.
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.