Modern Wisdom

#455 - Iain McGilchrist - The Wisdom Of Intuition

Apr 2, 2022

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The Left Hemisphere: Exploring the Role of the Brain in Cognition

01:36

The Death of Culture

01:22

The Problem with Technology

01:26

The Left Hemisphere and Civilization

04:07

Introduction

4min

The Vision That You've Got Your Work

4min

Is There a Common Thread?

5min

Is Your Intuition Going on for Longer Than That?

1min

Technology Is No More Nor Less Than the Extension of Human Control

5min

Why Intuition Doesn't Work

3min

I'm Trying to Use as Much Intuition as I Can

3min

The Water in a River Is Always There

2min

Do You Think We've Got the Answer to Things?

3min

10.

How to Become a Confucian Master

3min

11.

Horse Racing and Isle of Man, a Super Bike Racing as Will

2min

12.

The Left and Right Brain Split

5min

13.

What Does This Mean for the Left Hemispheric Brain?

3min

14.

Left Hemisphere Strokes - What Are the Disadvantages?

3min

15.

Nemesstella Vectensis, a Neural Net in Every Living Creature

4min

16.

Why Do Civilizations Go This Way?

4min

17.

Are You Uptimisting About the Future?

5min

18.

Awe and Dread - Is There a Moral Obligation?

4min

19.

Is There a Moral Obligation?

4min

Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, author and a former Oxford literary scholar.

Modern society praises rationality as the pinnacle destination we should all aim for. Tradition and intuition are seen as a silly, inaccurate, hokey approach for which we have more precise solutions now. Iain has identified that neuroscience, philosophy, theology and psychology don't always agree with this though.

Expect to learn why the modern world is so obsessed with cognition, why deliberateness makes less sense the more experienced you are, what happens if someone loses one half of their brain, what horse racing experts and Isle of Man motorcyclists can teach us about intuition and much more...

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