The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

168. A Brain Divided | Iain McGilchrist

May 13, 2021

01:48:49

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The Matter With Things

05:02

The Top Down Effects of Perception

02:57

The Pathways to Knowledge

02:28

Introduction

2min

Relief Band - The Best Anti Nausea Wristband

5min

What Is Attention?

2min

The Importance of Attention in the Creation of the World

3min

Why Do You Have to Look at the World in Two Ways?

4min

The Left and Right Hemispheres of the Universe

3min

The Left Hemisphere Doesn't Know What It Is

5min

The Matter With Things

6min

What Is Beyond Order?

4min

10.

The Artist's Play With Words

3min

11.

The Difference Between Reality and Reality

2min

12.

The Top Down Effects of Perception

3min

13.

The Matter With Things

5min

14.

Left Hemispher Stroke - What Happens When You Have Left Hemisphere Damage?

1min

15.

What Is the Left Hemisphere's Understanding?

2min

16.

What Is It Like to Write a Book?

2min

17.

I Eddit at the Paragraph Level, Like All These Levels Actually Exist?

6min

18.

Learning to Typing, Isn't It Easy?

2min

19.

Is There a Difference Between the Left and the Right?

3min

20.

The Pathways to Knowledge

2min

21.

Intent and the Realm of Your Experience

4min

22.

Consciousness Is a Primary Component of the Universe

5min

23.

Is Value Imperative in the Structure of Being?

2min

24.

Is There a God?

5min

25.

The Left Hemispheric View of the World

3min

26.

The Right and the Left Are Not Equal

4min

27.

Is There a Materialistic Vision of Incremental Material Progress?

4min

28.

The Trouble With Your Book Is That It Lacks Everything

5min

29.

Is the Scientific Viewpoint Nested in for It to Be Worth While?

3min

30.

The Most Important Part of a Relationship With God Is Not Theology

3min

31.

The Cocreation Idea Is Not a Trivial Idea

3min

32.

Is There Anything Wrong With the Left Hemispheric?

5min

33.

Is There Anything Else That You'd Like to Bring Up?

2min

Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, author, thinker, and lecturer. He is maybe best known for his book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

Dr. Iain McGilchrist and I discussed a variety of topics relating to the bifurcated brain, how we process reality as human beings, and the downfalls of the views that have shaped western culture according to McGilchrist.

Find more Iain McGilchrist on his new website channelmcgilchrist.com, and check out his new book “The Master and his Emissary”, and look for Iain's new book The Matter of Things coming in the near future.

This episode was recorded on February 15th, 2021.

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

168. A Brain Divided | Iain McGilchrist

The Matter With Things

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