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 some knowledge of it. And that might be things like science and reason and intuition and imagination,. Which form part two of my book. One is about the immediate things that the brain is able to do when it's observing the world. But attention is very, very important to me, because i realize that attention changes the world. It founds the nature of the only world we can experience.
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.