Human Nature and the Divided Brain

Human Nature and the Divided Brain | Iain McGilchrist

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In this episode of The Larry Arnn Show, Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn interviews psychologist and philosopher Iain McGilchrist. The two discuss McGilchrist’s work on the divided brain and how it relates to man’s search for meaning. Later, McGilchrist summarizes his career and his unique approach to address the world’s growing totalitarian streak.
Find more of Iain McGilchrist's work here: channelmcgilchrist.com/home/
This interview was conducted on March 19, 2024.
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@nschlaak Ай бұрын

My dad was left-handed and always had a tough time in a right-handed world. When I discovered that left-handed people use the right side of their brain and vice versa I came up with this humor to ease their lot in life. "People who are left-handed use the right side of their brain and people who are right-handed use what's left." Dad laughed and that was all that mattered.

@Ruthyism- Ай бұрын

😂 Nice!!

@Worthrhetime Ай бұрын

As a lefty… I appreciate that.

@TJ-kk5zf Ай бұрын

If that's what you came away with, you utterly missed mcgilchrist's point. You are adhering to the old myths about the right and left hemispheres that he debunks... in the first minute

@Ruthyism- Ай бұрын

@@TJ-kk5zf It was making light of a cute joke a child had for their parent…relax. Smile a little! It does wonders for the heart and both hemispheres.

@TJ-kk5zf Ай бұрын

@@Ruthyism- he's trying to dispel the myths that you're reinforcing

@0ucantstopme034 Ай бұрын

Listening to Dr. McGilchrist describe the process of receiving his fellowship to "All Souls" is amazing. Some truly gifted people out there...

@user-do7zw6pf6h 5 күн бұрын

This is a brilliant conversation! Gratitude!

@livenotbylies4412 Ай бұрын

Being able to watch these two brilliant men and share in their conversation was a blessing! Thank-you to Hillsdale for helping us to be wiser through great interviews such as this.

@lancelotdufrane Ай бұрын

Listening to a man that resonates. We listen and believe. Very intriguing. Enjoyed this conversation.

@mills8102 Ай бұрын

I am very grateful to hear the issue of discovering for one's self expanded on. Thank you, Dr. McGilchrist and thank you hillsdale college for providing the venue. 🙏

@edybrasfield1345 Ай бұрын

Thanks much you both for sharing your wisdom with us. Blessings!

@chamberscmt Ай бұрын

Last week Academy of Ideas releases a video centered around Iain McGichrist's ideas, and in that same week this comes out. Change (in our world's perceptions)is afoot.

@helenperala3459 Ай бұрын

I am so happy to find this interview. I joined Hillsdale College because I wanted to study some of the things they teach. I completed the C.S.Lewis on Christianity course and the one on Children's Classical Literature and enjoyed both thoroughly. I have stopped for a short time as I consider the next one I feel drawn to study but I know who Larry is! And Iain has to be my favorite speaker at this time (2024). I am going to enjoy this. And now, to listen.....:)

@gilliani.4328 22 күн бұрын

Wonderful, informative dialogue that sparks my curiosity. Thank you to you both.

@katnip198 Ай бұрын

Wonderful conversation. Two delightful men. Thank you.

@blairmckee9587 Ай бұрын

Outstanding conversation! This knowledge of the brain has a massive impact on our understanding of personal relationships, parenting, education, politics, theology and the church… Big stuff! God bless you and thank you for this…

@Worthrhetime Ай бұрын

That was an amazing conversation and a gift. Thank you. Can I have some more please?

@dalemyers9439 11 күн бұрын

I have great respect for Hillsdale College and the courses available online.

@user-we2qv1cx6x Ай бұрын

Two amazing men that do so much good in this world. Both set the bar very high, certainly examples to follow . I hope to get there one day

@jennymcgowin9140 Ай бұрын

I could listen to you two gentlemen all day long!❤❤

@lukefreeperson Ай бұрын

36:55 this point is fantastic!

@HeloisaAOliveira 20 күн бұрын

Even though Consciousness was not once mentioned , the road was well paved and I was delighted with such superb landscape. Thank You Dr McGilchrist and Mr Larry P. Annn

@tinychapter. 16 күн бұрын

57:20 there you go

@daphneradenhurst724 Ай бұрын

Wonderful!

@OldScrewl1928 Ай бұрын

What an excellent discussion! Thoroughly enjoy being exposed to great ideas thought by great thinkers!

@debbieramsey-hanks3757 Ай бұрын

Thank you for. a welcomed unveiling.

@0_3_6_9_0 Ай бұрын

Thank you! ❤🙏🏼💯 respect. 23:43

@WalkingInNature23 Ай бұрын

Observing the unconscious body language of expression during this interview makes me wonder how different it would be if both were walking side by side in a natural green or blue space. Wisdom and wonder watching this discussion will widen my brain. Thank you both.

@scientifico 18 күн бұрын

What bothered me was the artifice... for a talk centered around perception of reality. Thats not an actual library but a set. Note how the light beam on the floor does not move for the entire hour. Note the fireplace that does not flicker. Hillsdale College may be as much a place of higher education as Prager U... but they did present dr. McGilchrist who is a true evangelist for a way of seeing that could free the world

@jaysphilosophy1951 Ай бұрын

You never stop learning.....

@ejenkins4711 Ай бұрын

It would be amazing to stand behind ian

@bretnetherton9273 Ай бұрын

Awareness is known by awareness alone.

@williamwhitten7820 Ай бұрын

*The unconscious is where intuition dwells.*

@geraldmaybebaby1585 Ай бұрын

Wow. The opening wide angle shot of that room blew my mind. Such a pretty room. The lighting. Very movie. I hope it's not a very sophisticated podcast set.

@scientifico 18 күн бұрын

it is a set. Not the fireplace, the light on the floor that never moves.

@VenusLover17 17 күн бұрын

❤❤

@NineInchTyrone Ай бұрын

All Souls at 21 !

@janetsanders5356 6 сағат бұрын

Regarding freedom, I think part of the problem with people thinking they have total freedom is that they often don't take into consideration the flip side of freedom. To the extent that one has freedom of choice one becomes responsible for the consequences of those choices. Choosing to Drive drunk, then responsible if a pedestrian is killed as a result.

@danspencer4288 17 күн бұрын

I see a resonance between Dr. McGilchrist's ideas and those of Aristotle. The process involved by the left brain would appear to parallel what is pursued by the intellectual virtue of "episteme." The process involved by the right brain would appear to parallel what is pursued by the intellectual virtues of "techne" and "phronesis"...especially the latter. Episteme, explicated as theory, is an explicit form of knowledge. Phronesis is a tacit form of knowledge and is embodied in specific contexts through tacit knowing of the unique particulars of a social context (subsidiary awareness according to Polanyi). Phronesis certainly could be viewed as a more wholistic and intuitive "master" that would treat episteme as the "servant" in facilitating moral-practical human judgments. Would have loved to have gotten Dr. McGilchrist's reaction to these observations.

@patmat. Ай бұрын

Left hemisphere: "I know what I know" Righ hemisphere: "Yeah and look where that has brought us, AH!"

@blisstickmystic Ай бұрын

16:21 It's like the conscious brain has memory and that allows for continuous awareness and the subconscious is deeply in the moment and involved in construction or building the equation from the recall of information, so together they create and solve and daydream

@blisstickmystic Ай бұрын

So I was analyzing my toys as a child because I was taking them apart and often couldn't put them back together because of damage . So I was being neglected when my parents tried to find toys I couldn't break apart

@poor_jafar Ай бұрын

12:15 21:00 55:25 56:35 58:30 1:09:32

@oliverjamito9902 Ай бұрын

Pops these Angels who persevere and Heirs Hosts shared "i" AM will look at. Unto all who tempt and to provoke WHO? He remembering "DO NO MORE"! NEVERTHELESS!

@MS-od7je Ай бұрын

Even though I can quote movie lines after the first viewing some movies I’ll watch again and again. I think I could do McGilchrist’s interviews in his place. Come to think about it I could probably do the same with Michael Levin. Thankfully no one can copy me( well maybe my brother ) . I have resolved to give up no more information until the time is right and only then by direct means. The brain is a Mandelbrot set complex morphology! Understand why it is so!

@Bartisim0 Ай бұрын

Could diet influence brain hemisphere dynamics, potentially easing symptoms of mental health conditions? I'm curious whether adopting a ketogenic or carnivore diet might mitigate symptoms of depression or schizophrenia, considering the theory that an overactive left brain is linked to schizophrenia. How does diet impact this dynamic?

@flamechick6 Ай бұрын

Our 4.5 year old uses both hands. She is our 5th out of 6 kids. Everyone else is right handed. Wonder how her interactions and world are different inside. She does act a bit differently than the others.

@TJ-kk5zf Ай бұрын

All of the left-handed commenters really really really really really really really miss the point. In fact, you are embracing a neurological mythology which he dismisses in the first minute of this talk.

@santkumar-qb7nr Ай бұрын

Human nature is heart related brain 🧠 is different department .they're .No actions is possible without agreeing of both super organs 😊

@scientifico 18 күн бұрын

Dr. McGilchrist is a far fuller understanding of "the matter with things" than can be found in the pedagogy offered at Hillsdale. I've seen the ads they run on youtube and by nature of it being founded to elevate a western chauvinist ideology it is fully committed to left hemispheric perception. BUT, if students and staff of Hillsdale choose to explore more of McGilchrist's profound and utterly simple (and even intuitive) works (daresay "philosophy"), You would soon find yourself enriched and immersed in wonder and humility... that it was all here the entire time.

@merlinwizard1000 Ай бұрын

2nd, 23 April 2024

@bramblemat1185 Ай бұрын

Moley had an idea! He jumped out of his seat and shouted reuka! Have you any idea how rich this could make me...

@dominickmas2133 Ай бұрын

19:06

@bryanutility9609 Ай бұрын

Everyone talking about this guy & left right brain right now.

@chrisstein5128 Ай бұрын

To me it seems a paradox, the left brain is like a bank as we create, invent and innovate the advancement gets deposited mapped into the left brain. The masses withdraw, the imaginative, innovative enjoy and express and contribute for a moment. Seems a hope would be to inspire amplify and perpetuate the right brains attributes.

@thomasdavies2555 11 күн бұрын

This guy and sapolsky need to debate

@NineInchTyrone Ай бұрын

At the end of the day, we are all self taught

@ThermaL-ty7bw 28 күн бұрын

you know we're monkeys , right ? so NO , definitely NOT self taught , neither is EVERY OTHER ANIMAL ON THIS PLANET they ALL learn by COPYING other members of the species , except for the Cuckoo bird

@geoffreydawson5430 Ай бұрын

36:22 gaslighting starts. If you are wondering, my conservative teachers are Mark Carder and Ajahn Martin. But I am not conservative.

@ejenkins4711 Ай бұрын

I was left handed until 2004 wen i had an encounter with something and started writing strange stuff. The encounter was with CGJUNG

@boostup465 Ай бұрын

700 million years?

@oliverjamito9902 Ай бұрын

Pops it's vital! For a strongest Heirs Hosts shared "i" AM to raised an infant daughter! Specially the most Hated Man! My Beautiful shared "i" AM. What is Hate? Thy "i" AM beautiful will say, is murder unto Thee! Likewise bring to remembrance unto many Who am I beautiful?

@oliverjamito9902 Ай бұрын

Our beautiful Women remember ye all just Women in front! Remember without my Heirs Hosts shared "i" AM ye all can't be MOTHERS in front! Remember from thee both as 1! Here "i" AM= many shared "i" AM! Pops what is singularity? Pops ye know already! Where all name nor names, #'s, nor formulas came from 1st? Even my Angels who persevere knows? Why silent? But to observe 1ST! Even though have not said a WORD UNTO US! Silent in front! Know thy places and positions in FRONT! Heard!

@cyberpunkworld 29 күн бұрын

One likes skirts, but that's just bait, that's just bait, because in the fourth a witchcraft blueprint is made :))

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@jeffwangsgaard8542 Ай бұрын

Interesting to see that Hillcrest is promoting Hermetic Thought. Interesting. 🤔 😢

@TantorNa 6 күн бұрын

Interesting, but Dr. Arnn was a distraction. He kept pulling Dr. McGilchrist away from the core of the issue by asking somewhat irrelevant questions about his personal life, rather than the subject at hand. I would have asked about species, gender and racial aspects of the divided brain. For example, how is it that only mammals have connections between the two halves. How does the lack of the connection affect non-mammal behavior. Isn't it true that women have more connections? And are there racial differences. These are actually very important for our time.

@oliverjamito9902 Ай бұрын

Pops which ye prefer? What is an atomic bomb? Is like, what is OLDER THAN TREES? Nor who sitteth upon older than TREES? Heaven fled away liken unto scrolls and the mountains moved out from their places? The SUN became black Sackcloth of HAIR and the Moon blood.

@oliverjamito9902 Ай бұрын

Nor "DO NO MORE"! Therefore preserve an OPEN DOOR! NOONE CAN SHUT!

@busibee976 Ай бұрын

People making ideas way to difficult.

@ThermaL-ty7bw 28 күн бұрын

it's to snag people like this comment section , who don't know anything ABOUT anything , which makes this lecture so enticing to people with less then 2 braincells

@KL0098 21 күн бұрын

27:40 How self-contented these two sound, damning social media as the world's destroyer even as they bask in their proud ignorance of what they're damning. Imagine trying to end a pandemic by paying attention to a xylographer who never studied virology. This is why we need analysist, reductionists, specialists of all sorts, instead of world-fleeing, college-secluded generalist nostalgists overeager to resurrect a "man of letters" type whose sell date ended three centuries ago.

@mznxbcv12345 21 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 otherwise; The left hemisphere which he constantly characterizes as is "Western" (whatever that means) is specifically what is activated during meditation, in particular with lomg-term meditators. In addition, it is the Right hemisphere, not the left which is associated with depression. Whatever original contribution in the book of his is not even worth considering. A Cryptofacist is what he is.