A Medicine More Fit for Humanity - 2024 John P McGovern Lecture, Duke University, USA

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23 күн бұрын

We live in an age in which we cede more and more of life to machines, raising questions for the practice of medicine.
- What is the calling of medicine?
- Is it not to heal human beings?
But what does it mean to heal?
- Is a human being just a body?
- Is the body just a machine?
- Is a doctor just a mechanic?
- Can machines substitute for human skill?
- Can they erode human skill?
- How should we think of death?
- What, after all, is a good life?
It’s unlikely we would all agree on the answers to these questions, but they do all need to be asked. And understanding the role played by lateralization in brain function may guide us towards what are at least better answers to these pressing questions.
Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, and a former Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch.
Dr. McGilchrist is the author of The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. His most recent book is 'The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World'. He now lives on the Isle of Skye, off the coast of North West Scotland, where he continues to write, and lecture worldwide.
To purchase The Matter with Things
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Hardback UK only ChannelMcGilchrist.com , Amazon.co.uk and other booksellers nationwide
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@HighCountryStudio 20 күн бұрын

Thank you. I have been in health care for nearly 50 years. This message is beyond needed. We ( professionals and patients) are desperate for real, human to human relationships in the midst of a bureaucratic nightmare called a “ health care system “ when, in truth, it is none of those things…not about health, not about caring, and not a system.

@sathya999 20 күн бұрын

It's a system of disease maintenance by de$ign

@christinacd 16 күн бұрын

Indeed, modern healthcare systems are now all about protocols

@natalywithaY 10 күн бұрын

It is a money making system pairing up with the phood industry. Its all business. If people want to be healthy they need to practice their free will and acquire knowledge and live accordingly. Unfortunately most are asleep at the wheel having delegated responsibility over what turns out to be their own decisions.

@briandowney9913 Күн бұрын

Dr. McGilchrist and his work is what our world needs to hear and learn right now! My life has been truly enhanced by reading and listening to him over the last couple years! Thank you, Dr. Iain McGilchrist!

@mandyshanks2327 19 күн бұрын

Thanks god for McGilchrist and the Sheldrake family of the UK. May there be many more such open souls with brains.

@MJC22.03 18 күн бұрын

Hooray ! We have a Human at the podium !

@zacfre69 18 күн бұрын

Thank you, Dr. McGilchrist. My life experience was quite similar to that described by the last audience member in the video. Your work saved my life, and I can think and articulate clearly enough to help loved ones that I once struggled to understand and connect with. My psychiatrist seems deeply interested in your work after seeing the sudden, profound changes in my attitude and overall wellbeing. I am about to graduate and begin a practice of my own, and your work is one of the few things that gave me hope and kept me working towards this goal. Thank you so much.

@TheDAT9 13 күн бұрын

We all understand that we have allowed ourselves to led down the wrong path, but still follow it. We need more people like Ian to say stop, and turn around.

@aek12 11 күн бұрын

Mcgilchrist the most important man of 21st century

@ginalibrizzi5204 18 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this. My soul is soothed to hear others who understand. May all of humanity stand up and pay attention!

@danielross7899 20 күн бұрын

Dr. McGilchrist offers so much profound wisdom and hope for a path forward. Thank you for this presentation.

@TennesseeJed 22 күн бұрын

Iain starts at 6:35

@nupraptorthementalist3306 20 күн бұрын

👍

@cathithomas2888 18 күн бұрын

thanks!

@catherinewestover8224 23 сағат бұрын

If there is anyone in this post-modern world at whose feet I would like to sit, it is Dr. Iain McGilchrist. Thank you!

@TheProms 13 күн бұрын

I had the privilege to meet Dr Iain McGilchrist. What a great man he is.

@L2Lacademy 2 күн бұрын

Ian's talks have given me the framework that has reconciled several observations about major world issues that have been troubling me for decades. Thank you

@mjones2879 17 күн бұрын

I’m speechless - out of emotion, feelings, perceptions…. I’m so grateful for you being who you are !!!! ❤L CC. R❤

@katiestanley93 20 күн бұрын

I had a temporal lobe problem on the left side following a traumatic episode and my whole life changed. The energy I saw changed my life. Thank you for giving substance to my experience I am in awe

@annfionamaskell7828 20 күн бұрын

Preach on, Brother Iain, preach on ... viva

@shahlaahy4372 20 күн бұрын

Thank god for speaking of human matters progress had left behind!

@natesmithstine8566 22 күн бұрын

I really enjoy Iain's work. The narrowing of attention is very interesting and something I began to notice at some point in my life. I grew up spending a lot of time on the computer which I believe played a part in a narrowing of my attention. About 10-15 years ago started getting into my body a lot. When doing hand stands and heavy repetition work loads exercising, it is interesting how much more accessible these things are when you allow your attention to unnarrow. This unnarrowing of the attention also rings true for a lot of other things I put myself towards in my life. Thank you Iain your work has become a very important force in my journey of becoming in this life.

@D.E.Saccone-no4og 21 күн бұрын

Its a huge problem that people arent putting you infront of young people, whom doubtlessly need to hear and feel your message most. Hopefully, those type of engagement come your way more often. The lad from Footnotes2Plato, whose name i sm forgetting, is a wonderful example of that generation - i must say. Peace be with You

@BonnieBlueSky 22 күн бұрын

Pure delight!! Iain has become an excellent story teller. This is complex stuff but with wisdom and patience and concise everyday language he found me. And I can hear his message. And it is awesome! Deep gratitude for Dr. Iain McGilchrist!

@dasglasperlenspiel10 22 күн бұрын

I WISH I HAD BEEN PRESENT FOR THIS LECTURE.

@l3eatalphal3eatalpha 22 күн бұрын

Metaphysical statement.

@kartech6938 20 күн бұрын

@@l3eatalphal3eatalphatrue

@cobaltjones 13 күн бұрын

Dr. McGilchrist's writings crystalize what I've always sensed. That American culture is impoverished in the context of the transcendental. America is a mundane business/baby culture of mere survival. This creates a vacuum of meaninglessness that gadgets will never fill. My right brain is dying inside the hamster cage of the literal mind.

@ekoe5484 22 күн бұрын

thank you, Iaian and all those who put the effort into bringing this lecture to us. Many thanks to you Iaian for ALL the work you are doing to help us of the importance each hemispheres take on reality and why balance is SO important.

@theobservereffectexplained1102 21 күн бұрын

Dr. McGilchrist May God bless you for all the time and effort you put into writing and sharing such deep insights and truth about human nature. I learned a lot “Love those who use and abuse you “ “Give the other check “ Even though the left brainers are challenging and destroying the beautiful planet we must find a way to live them so we don’t get to be in riches anger.

@qanishque 21 күн бұрын

He's a saint❤

@oliverjamito9902 21 күн бұрын

What is more soothing to hear? Thank you Pop Lain! Pop don't mind the SON sitteth upon the lowest seat LASTS! Gratitude and Honor! Love you Pop Lain!

@sumayyabhorat790 17 күн бұрын

Enlightening... Thank you Dr McGilchrist❤

@nicolesawyer-jm6ir 18 күн бұрын

The best! Thank you for your work and kind depth of clarity.

@lalithgunaratne1620 21 күн бұрын

Dr. McGilchrist provides wisdom to take on the people in power in cahoots with the corporate world...which is a limited liability inanimate license to act as a human person to influence politicians yet it's only purpose is to make profits ......and the pharma, oil, arms all run our world for their profit ..but most of us sacred people know something is amiss.....we just do not quite realize what it is .so we just carry on with life....

@andydufresne299 8 күн бұрын

Thank you. Peace.

@mojavewander9308 18 күн бұрын

I've been hoping for a summation such as this that I can follow. Thank you!

@TheGrimStoic 22 күн бұрын

Always startlingly framework-defining

@irinaclaussen7940 18 күн бұрын

Absolutely loved every word 💙

@NineInchTyrone 17 күн бұрын

Let food be thy medicine

@raymaharaj3555 14 күн бұрын

Brilliant ! 👏

@motherhubbard6468 17 күн бұрын

Death is either nothing or the next great adventure….

@NorfolkSceptic 22 күн бұрын

I note that Capitalism and Bureaucrats were maligned, but no mention of Socialism, or Corporatism. Both of these cultures (endemic in the NHS), like to dehumanise interactions, and separate responsibility and control, which leads to the dilution of professionalism. I suppose wealth creation isn't that important, when you have enough yourself, but without it, leisure, time for thinking, is impossible. And how can spirituality be so important, yet any hint of Christianity in the NHS is viewed as alien? The questions, around 1:17:h00 do raise some important issues. Time is money, and it's in short supply when the State confiscates such a large fraction.

@bb2021 21 күн бұрын

Norfolk, if I understood you correctly, in other talks he has likened extremes of any kind, eg extreme socialism and capitalism as being very difficult to distinguish from each other. Specifically saying that in the NHS (as an example) it would be possible to get rid of most of the managerial structure and do no real harm.

@NorfolkSceptic 21 күн бұрын

@bb2021 He prefers his private practice, and that woman was offended that she was told how much time she had with patients (by the NHS?) and that shows the problem. But what does that have to do with Capitalism? Capitalism is just acknowledgment that capital exists and needs to be managed, preferably by people that know what they are doing, not politicians. So calling it extreme is meaningless, or socialist propaganda. Even Marxist countries have to manage capital. China hasn't been doing that very well, recently, either. The Medical Establishment is living within the NHS, a 1948 socialist construct, the BMA union stopped extra trainees in 2008, and everyone works in their own siloed discipline, protecting the pharmaceutical companies that discourage good diet, etc, to sell their wares. It's the politicians that determine the arrangement, and it's the Left that have pushed for 'No Change', fixed working practices, a lack of anything to motivate improvement from those doing the work. It's all top down, employing large consultancies, and more bureaucracy! And he goes on about more Arts & Humanities education, when we have our disastrous NET Zero policies, driven by Arts and Humanities graduates that don't have a clue about Science or Engineering. Yes, we need some Arts, Humanities and Social Science graduates, probably fewer and better quality, but they need to be taught credible information and have some intelligence. Currently, they are running the country into the ground, with their Left brain driven ideas, thinking that intelligence is a credible substitute for a relevant education and experience. Unfortunately, they have a brain with no idea what Classical Mechanics has to say about Windmills. If they did, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now. And you don't need to go to university to learn about Arts and the Humanities. The BBC could help here. :)

@roxynoz8245 17 күн бұрын

Those thereoctical concepts that you have mentioned are out of place now. What you have, are litteral forms of corruption, where goverment corruptly form mutualism with Capitalists. Both parties gain more money through eachother.

@PhilGribbon 19 күн бұрын

48:36 I love Dr Iain's freudian slips "we can't get out of the crisis by the same kind of thinking that got into it…got us into it in the first place" If an art work is an organism as per Aristotle (refd at 10:00), then thought-belief-systems may also be considered 'living'. "Our fragmented life-denying grasping culture is making us sick, sicker than we have ever been." This living thought exhibits a dominance of left-hemispheric fixation - IIIΞ is what is meant:;to flow.

@helenperala3459 22 күн бұрын

Superb!

@samloutalbotmusic 21 күн бұрын

Excellent, as ever

@L2Lacademy 2 күн бұрын

Excellent

@jeanetteberwick2434 9 күн бұрын

The left and the right Hemisphere Brillant information to study thankyou ❤❤

@loyh5269 21 күн бұрын

god bless you lain

@loyh5269 20 күн бұрын

@@SRCX.ClimateResearch is that even a question?

@loyh5269 20 күн бұрын

@@SRCX.ClimateResearch yes

@loyh5269 20 күн бұрын

@@SRCX.ClimateResearch look around you.

@loyh5269 20 күн бұрын

@@SRCX.ClimateResearch not here to impress you on evidence, and it seems you dont have the mental faculties to go beyond what you think e.g your right hemisphere is weak

@loyh5269 19 күн бұрын

@@SRCX.ClimateResearch ok

@annakarl9989 9 күн бұрын

THANK YOU 💐💖🤗

@ivoneriquelme3536 9 күн бұрын

A pessoa pioneira em Permacultura pra mim foi SKYE (da Austrália)! Grata.

@MJC22.03 18 күн бұрын

Brilliant

@vitomercedes3092 21 күн бұрын

Congrats

@NineInchTyrone 17 күн бұрын

CARNIVORE

@antoineleedolliole7549 11 күн бұрын

Badass!

@SacraTessan 20 күн бұрын

Yes the utility for what ? The problem with most institutions ..who tend to work against what they where created to serve .. solve

@SacraTessan 20 күн бұрын

Thank you for this ❣️where can I find the following lecture as was annonsed ..about Art ?

@DJWESG1 3 күн бұрын

If only the government released their risk assessments for austerty policies and welfare cuts.. You say they are pointless, but it would have been good to be able to hold them to account with legitimate documentation and real tangible evidence to present to a court. You know how many have 'suffered'.

@VenusLover17 14 күн бұрын

❤❤

@marksmit8112 17 күн бұрын

Excellent and profound but as always far too much noise for the lay person such as myself, who like to get to it.

@papessa 16 күн бұрын

Attention is changing the behaviour of the electron- it becomes as a wave or as a particle, isn’t it 😊

@Neal_Daedalus 19 күн бұрын

1:05:26 remind you of the parable of the Prodigal Son?

@sunroom7 21 күн бұрын

Excellent. The left hemisphere is deluded....100%

@PRAR1966 22 күн бұрын

🙂

@wehsee912 22 күн бұрын

🌚☄️❤️💫

@ESuccessMasters 16 күн бұрын

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💕💕💕❤️❤️❤️🌟🌟

@pauldunn9502 14 күн бұрын

Pischinger might argue that. CELL has no knowledge but the ECM is the intelligence and responds to the environment

@dreamervanroom 19 күн бұрын

Laughiing in the Q&A dont speak like things are a machine then say you are speaking with precision and make up some specific down to a decimal. Oh on re-listen he did say it was a FAKE precision. Right on. Is there indeed a difference in his words: intersubjectivity and subjectivity? "the intersubjective world" Ah, he is talking about the communication between what we see as body parts. And intersubjectivity refers to just that with relation to things outside of ourselves (back and forth communication). Ian your time problem is also a crowdedness problem. The population of humans has increased to an unmanageble amount, and unsustainable in the biosphere. The last question was a magical summation plus indicating further direction of what Dr.McGilchrist was working on saying. He was listening. Thank you both.

@roxynoz8245 17 күн бұрын

The Human practice to impose their conceptual maps, and think of it as the 'in-of-itself' reality; causes nearly 2500 years of Western Philosophy to be in need of review. R.I.P to so many lost lives of Philosophers/Scientists who were guided in dealing of nescience. May Embodied Realism have its revoloution!

@user-ok6xp6pj4o 22 күн бұрын

"attention is a form of love" is that why some shout Attention to soldiers at various military functions ? thank you

@MusicaAngela 22 күн бұрын

I’m not sure if you meant this as a joke, but shouting a demand for attention is not a way of eliciting attention. It’s more of a way of saying “pull yourself together and wait for the next instruction.” In other words, a military commander orders his troops to stop thinking and just wait and respond as they have been automatically trained to do so.

@user-ok6xp6pj4o 22 күн бұрын

@@MusicaAngela ok, sounds complicated and weird but I guess that's how that works then there, thank you

@RJ-cs9gz 22 күн бұрын

Iain starts at 6min 30

@maryjacobs5920 21 күн бұрын

Thanks

@theobservereffectexplained1102 21 күн бұрын

My divine is Jesus Christ and his teachings is all about love. “Forgive them they don’t know what they are doing or saying “ “Love your enemies “ So the left brain culture needs love and compassion. They don’t know what they are missing

@harrying882 20 күн бұрын

The only true virtue is courage, with that the rest will follow.

@ajaypatra2863 17 күн бұрын

Life is a far from equilibrium system.

@celestialteapot309 15 күн бұрын

Speaking as someone who has escaped the tyranny of work by "sitting about" for 20 years at the expense of the state l highly reccommend it for right brain and spiritual development (please note, the capitalist class needs unemployment ).

@merlingeikie 4 күн бұрын

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@ejenkins4711 17 күн бұрын

The professor surely knows the difference between profit and prophet. I could tell we he blessed the lad at the end. T432 truth 🍀🦍⌚

@ejenkins4711 17 күн бұрын

Lux veritas CGJ/CGJP Born 68 again 03 Found the good doctor 04 inside me, All that has happened how comprehend Sterquilinus inveneture My friend 2 the end🍀🦍⌚

@mznxbcv12345 12 күн бұрын

Why is Iain McGilchrist popping up everywhere now? His book was only useful insofar the clinical cases it presented, his entire methodology is flawed otherwiseWhatever original contribution in the book of his is not even worth considering. A nick murray fan.

@saliksayyar9793 20 күн бұрын

The white haired guy who came first is really annoying with his voice and attitude .

@andrewmaher8409 18 күн бұрын

“Director of bioethics humanities and history of medicine”… Could be totally wrong, but guessing anyone allowed to inhabit that position probably isn’t really interested in McGilcrist’s views, what those views might bring to light about the medical Industry’s (lack of) ethics, and the direction that industry may be forced to take if the greater public fully embrace some of McGilchris’s views.

@carolineoakshett8520 18 күн бұрын

@@andrewmaher8409Ah interesting. Bioethics is a term brought in to disguise something very far from ethical. Something fixed in the left hemisphere.