The past 500 years?

I would say that offering up a yardstick we can perhaps get a perspective on just how important McGilchrist is. I don’t think he sits in easy comparison with modern philosophers, as they lack Ian’s range, yet those of formers times perhaps attended more broadly to the world as Ian does I offer this as a tentative reframing of the original comment.

@@peterweston1356 I was going to say ''Jason Reza Jorjani'' but the past 500 years also includes Nietzsche and Heidegger, so there's a few philosophers who are at least his equal.

Of course we won’t know Iains true impact until a hundred years later, long after we’re all gone. But the hemisphere hypothesis is so powerful, so groundbreaking and so all-encompassing that it will change every single discipline and field.

@@MusicalBasics I would love to hear him have a discussion with Jason Reza Jorjani

I've just found him

@@lalaholland5929 well, if you like what you heard, his books are well worth reading.

Well-said! 👍

Yes yes yes - I is thoughts floated through my mind as well, but you expressed this so beautifully.

Don't forget the ubiquitous 'guitar on the wall' along with bookcases in the background of all most every podcast ((: I rewatch this often for the calming effect it has on me.

I got so hungry watching this video.

Have been to Skye and Talisker....in the mid 1990s

@@tomgreene1843 that’s very cool - it looks so splendid - haha I did Google earth when Iain was visited by Alex Gomez-Marin after they had finished the great series of Understanding the Matter with Things Dialogues (highly recommend 😊)

@@tomgreene1843 I pass his door every few days and he still doesnt answer my emails.. most frustrating as we work in such very similar perspectives. How's that for a not very joined up world. it is so strange our modern connectivity/non connectivity isnt it :/

Yes it was a feast. A delightful privilege. But isn’t that a bit of a problem though? I mean great that we can enjoy creation. Wonderful to retreat from the city and live like this. My grandmother lived at one with nature in a beautiful cottage. She also had good taste. It was a dream world to grow up in because she was so loving and so full of beauty, inside and out, both herself and her house and garden. She had no faith and was at one with the universe. But I also knew that this idyl was only possible because of immense privilege. She had enough money to live like this. She was very comfortable. I have lived in working class areas. And I would be embarrassed to talk like these two gents do , surrounded by such luxury and pontificate about society, politics and conservatism. I would feel shame and cognitive dissonance.

@@markrichter2053 I saw later in the video that he hunts. I'm against hunting.

Welcome to the world of middle class conservatism. Nothing will actually get done, but we'll have a jolly nice time over dinner talking about it.

Very much resonate… well said!

@@gomackay Thank you, sir.

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I felt like this for years. Don't underestimate what practising the faith does for one's belief! Grace is real. There are things one cannot perceive from the periphery.

I was going to post this precise comment

Well said. He should have invited you to dinner!

Good comment. As a Marxist and a communist, I find the complacent ignorance about Marxism (e.g. associating it with 'extremism', or assuming that socialists are 'against' what they call 'tradition') in these kinds of conversations pretty staggering. At some point, you gotta lay off the Scruton and engage in good faith dialogue with ideas you don't like. Then again, the refusal to countenance revolutionary ideas is not terribly surprising. After all, you don't want to disturb a pretty comfortable lifestyle by thinking too much about war, poverty and wage slavery.

I frequently joke about the falsehood of communism breaking families and sexual mores by asking how many sexual norms Mao removed.

If we have endure overlords, I could live with people like Ian being part of that enlightened self interest polity.

@@TheDAT9 Having now watched another discussion between McGilchrist and Jordan Peterson my reaction to this stagy, competitive, 'not so much a conversation but a waiting for an opening' exchange was confirmed six-fold. The other was a refined penetration of ideas, and a genuine conversation that both led and followed a lead. But we have lived with these kinds of overlords forever, the academic Oxbridge, name-dropping 'regurgitating of assigned authority' 'That quote was not C.S. Lewis but Chesterton!' ( Morello cherry on top!) I don't believe McGilchrist is really like that, but he went along with it! On another level of moral aesthetics...the roving camera dwelling on affluence...undid any focus on the crisis of spiritual values. It was a BBC-like propaganda photo-shoot to cement the entitlement of those who already hold affluent influence. I'd rather take my overlords from the Canadian truckers who crossed a continent in deep winter! Such current indications were conspicuously not mentioned.

I could rip it to shreds from either a Right or Left perspective, but what's the point? I'll just say it was a great example of smug middle class privilege and delusion.

Canadian truckers don't have the intellect to run countries, that is why they are truckers. Salt of the Earth, yes, but Prime Ministers , no. @@philipparees2177

It's remarkable how " Spiritual " one becomes when living the sort of lifestyle which a tiny percentage of the population can only aspire to. A quite nauseating smug fest !

So true - I don't know how people can live in small apartments along major roads with the horrible din of traffic and vehicles hurtling past at a horrendous speed day and night -yet so many have no choice. Better to be poor in a remote community than poor in a busy city.

Nobody would be poor if we didn't have psychopaths running human affairs.@@kaloarepo288

IKR? His smug pronouncements on life while he's all nice and secure with his wealth and privilege boiled my piss.

Envy will destroy you. Gratitude will save you Find out what you are, and why you are here.@@thadtuiol1717

I dropped my 7 iron at the foot of a copse tree on a Scottish estate (. Where I was renting )to escape the sight and baying black hounds one sat morning by the the best use of my new spiked golf boots..up the tree in record time. !. The pack with noses still down assembled around my club . Some very big horses and riders arrived without seeing me. . From my tree hug loft I waved . Gasps and stifled giggles " Oh you were safe you crossed the scent " and they departed. With jelly legs I slid to a head Was I interacting with mature?

@ericT7 Hmm....Maybe you could set us an example by giving up use of the Internet. ? You could use the time saved to make a hunting spear or a toothbrush ?

Will, not quite ‘the one remaining friend’, but the one that I socialise with most frequently I.e every six to eight weeks 🙄🤷🏻‍♂

Thanks for sharing that. It's very relatable.

@@ArtPhotographerLindsay you’re welcome

@kiljoy2354 Maybe they got tired of you banging on about your favourite conspiracy theories. I expect you're an admirer of that other " great " thinker Graham Hancock...?

​@@2msvalkyrie529 No, not particularly interested in Hancock or UFO’s... There’s a host of symptoms/conditions almost exclusively associated with Right Hemisphere deficit due to damage after a stroke, say, and therefore relying predominantly on the Left Hemisphere. A few examples: Perseveration “The left hemisphere deals with what it knows, and therefore prioritises the expected - its process is predictive. It positively prefers what it knows. This makes it more efficient in routine situations where things are predictable, but less efficient than the right wherever the initial assumptions have to be revised, or when there is a need to distinguish old information from new material that may be consistent with it.” “The right hemisphere is, in other words, more capable of a frame shift; and not surprisingly the right frontal lobe is especially important for flexibility of thought, with damage in that area leading to perseveration, a pathological inability to respond flexibly to changing situations. For example, having found an approach that works for one problem, subjects seem to get stuck, and will inappropriately apply it to a second problem that requires a different approach - or even, having answered one question right, will give the same answer to the next and the next [Trudeau?]. It is the right frontal cortex that is responsible for inhibiting one's immediate response, and hence for flexibility and set-shifting; as well as the power of inhibiting immediate response to environmental stimuli.” Asomatognosia “it often follows right-hemisphere stroke. A lack of capacity to recognise parts of the embodied self is always associated with right-hemisphere damage, never with left-hemisphere damage. The phenomenon can be replicated by selectively anaesthetising the right hemisphere.” Anosognosia Speaking of both Goethe’s Faust and The Sorcerer‘s apprentice: “...but in either story - that of Faust or of the [Sorcerer‘s] apprentice - there is a saving awareness that things have gone badly wrong. In the story I am to tell, the left hemisphere acts like a sorcerer's apprentice that is blithely unaware that he is about to drown, a Faust that has no insight into his errors and the destruction they have brought about. Let us remind ourselves of the neurological literature for a moment. Although the left hemisphere does not see and cannot understand what the right hemisphere understands, it is expert at pretending that it does, at finding quite plausible, but bogus, explanations [confabulation/Biden] for the evidence that does not fit its version of events. It will be remembered from the experiments of Deglin and Kinsbourne that the left hemisphere would rather believe authority, ‘what it says on this piece of paper’, than the evidence of its own senses. And remember how it is willing to deny a paralysed limb, even when it is confronted with indisputable evidence?” Ramachandran: In the most extreme cases, a patient will not only deny that the arm (or leg) is paralysed, but assert that the arm lying in the bed next to him, his own paralysed arm, doesn't belong to him! There's an unbridled willingness to accept absurd ideas. But when the damage is to the left hemisphere (and the sufferer is therefore depending on the right hemisphere), with paralysis on the body's right side, they almost never experience denial. Why not? They are as disabled and frustrated as people with right hemisphere damage, and presumably there is as much ‘need’ for psychological defence, but in fact they are not only aware of the paralysis, but constantly talk about it …It is the vehemence of the denial - not a mere indifference to paralysis - that cries out for an explanation. The left hemisphere is not keen on taking responsibility. If the defect might reflect on the self, it does not like to accept it. But if something or someone else [i.e Trump/conservatives/white men, Jews] can be made to take responsibility - if it is a ‘victim’ of someone else's wrongdoing, in other words - it is prepared to do so. Ramachandran carried out an experiment in which a patient with denial of a left arm paralysis received an injection of harmless salt water that she was told would ‘paralyse’ her (in reality already paralysed) left arm. Once her left hemisphere had someone else to blame for it, it was prepared to accept the existence of the paralysis. Ramachandran again: ‘The left hemisphere is a conformist, largely indifferent to discrepancies, whereas the right hemisphere is the opposite: highly sensitive to perturbation.’ Denial, a tendency to conformism, a willingness to disregard the evidence, a habit of ducking responsibility, a blindness to mere experience in the face of the overwhelming evidence of theory: these might sound ominously familiar to observers of contemporary Western life.” Allegedly certain experts in the field have attributed ‘zombie’ characteristics to the Right hemisphere. Now, why would they do that? It’s almost as though they are following Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’- always accuse your enemies of what you yourself are - as if the RH represents conscience (which is anathema to those with the ‘Ring of Gyges’), and therefore needs to be discredited, if not outright demonised: “The popular assumption, aided by the reflections of some respectable neuroscientists, is that the right hemisphere might be something like a zombie, or a sleepwalker... ...So-called ‘zombie’ states are characterised by dissociation, in which the conscious mind appears cut off from the body and from feeling. That in itself suggests a relative hypofunction of the right hemisphere. Dissociation is, furthermore, the fragmentation of what should be experienced as a whole - the mental separation of components of experience that would ordinarily be processed together, again suggesting a right-hemisphere problem. Core features of dissociation include amnesia for autobiographical information, identity disturbances, depersonalisation and derealisation (lack of the sense of the reality of the phenomenal world, which appears to be a two-dimensional projection). On first principles one would therefore expect this to be a right-hemisphere-deficit condition. And subjects with right-hemisphere damage do in fact report exactly this - a change in, and a foreignness of, the self, which is disconnected from the world, a loss of feeling of belonging in the world. At times they report having become insensible automata, puppets, or mere spectators, devoid of feelings and cut off from the surrounding world (one even reported that her head has been turned into a cone, but with the front part missing; other patients reported feeling themselves to be just a casing, or cover, their ‘I’ having been separated from them, located outside the body, somewhere nearby and to the left). Subjects almost invariably speak of ‘going to another space or place’. Given all this, it would be extraordinary if dissociation in ‘normal’ subjects did not involve a disconnection from the right hemisphere, and an interhemispheric imbalance in favour of the left. And this is just what the empirical evidence shows.”

Remarkable mainly for the amount of vacuous drivel spouted in only 2 hours.!

Beyond naive. They hate us.

Indeed. I think about how in the USA, many conservatives claim that the wild west of individualism makes great things happen, and yet also demand everyone marry and pump out babies.

I case here in part to say this. 😊

I must have missed that part. All I heard was the same old tosh he's been peddling to the gullible and hard of thinking for years !

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hMeVYJZ235zdf3k.html Incredible take on the song.

I've just found out that it's Dominic Houlder, part of the London Business School

I heard the Romans got a major case of lead poisoning from all those pipes and drinking vessels.