The brain needs an optimal level of connection to effectively transmit essential information between hemispheres and inhibit irrelevant communication. Excessive connection can lead to the transmission of unnecessary information, causing the signal to be overwhelmed by noise. In the context of neuroimaging, it is crucial to filter information to make sense of the data and draw meaningful conclusions. The brain acts as a filter, permitting and negating consciousness while fostering creativity through the process of filtering and selection. This emphasizes the importance of balancing communication and specialization to have a holistic view, filtering out noise to focus on essential information.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down in-person with psychiatrist, researcher, and philosopher Dr. Iain McGilchrist. They discuss right brain/left brain hemispheric specialization, the basis of delusion, “unknowing” as a necessary step toward wisdom, consciousness and the divine ground of being, and the imposition of mediocrity in the modern West.
Dr. Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He has been a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature, philosophy, medicine and psychiatry. He is the author of a number of books, but is best-known for The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale 2009). In November 2021 his two-volume work The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World was published by Perspectiva Press.
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2024 tour details can be found here https://jordanbpeterson.com/events
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For Iain McGilchrist:
Website https://channelmcgilchrist.com/
On X https://twitter.com/dr_mcgilchrist?lang=en
The Matter With Things (Book) https://tinyurl.com/5d3cfns6
The Master and His Emissary (Book) https://tinyurl.com/3p4favfe