The Examined Life Podcast explores the questions we should be asking ourselves with some of today's leading thinkers.The philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti observed that 'it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a sick society' - the conversations in this series point to what it might mean to become positively maladjusted to a sick society.
I recall the onset of deconstruction of art by academic criticism when i went to college. It sucked the life out of what I loved, anatomical sculpture of the past two millenia. Now nihilism has brought us to abandonment of our own democracy, climatic catastrophe, poisoning the ocean that feeds us and mining the sea bottom of metals that oxygenate our planet--for the personal profit of oligarchs selling electric cars. Dr Iain lets me see that through union of the opposites, we have the possibility to bring on the economic revolution needed to save humanity and planet earth. Thank Atum for the Cult of Trump, his MAGA judges, corporate media and oligarchs who don't want to pay their fair share of taxes.
Its curious the interviewer struggles to find rapport, despite being given in-person access to Dr Iain. In another interview (by zoom) i watched today, the interviewer had read Dr Iain's entire two books including the footnotes -- almost a million words. From that, he identified a keystone rhythm "thisness" of Dr Iain's thesis...and structured his entire presentation around it. He added to, not stood outside of Dr Iains life work. This young man brings a college student perspective to the Wise Old Mentor. Fortunately the two of them warm up as the interview unfolds. In regards to Dr Iains critics, in my ear they sound like the 60s Top Tune "Its my Birthday and I will Cry if I Want To."
Our Enlightenment-based liberal culture in its late stage has blinded us and indeed absolutely forbidden us to see the fundamental, crucial and life-determining role of race and racial differences and therefore racial incompatibilities. Europe and North America are being destroyed thru mass 3rd world invasion and we cannot name it for what its because "racism," one of the greatest lies in history. THAT's what our culture is preventing us from seeing.
What a pity, the primacy of human involvement in the 'profoundly prosaic' of the here and now. Is so diametrically opposed by progressives, conservatives and the religious.They all share one quality, being blinded by a naive, absolute idealism on the priority of their own individuality. Over the possibility of a shared objective reality for all humankind in this supposedly... mere pedestrian present.
Thank you for posting this, great stuff. Does anyone have a source for the quote (at 10:42) that over 80% of young people think their life is meaningless. Is that a UK statistic or a worldwide one?
Amazing interview and questions; I enjoyed the sound, it was as if I was in the room with you guys, I enjoyed Iain's creaking chair. I'm currently reading The Matter with Things and I often watch Iain talk. His work ought to transform society.
1. The central dogma of biology is, if not incorrect, a significantly flawed concept. 2. The flaw of 1. Is a fundamental problem related to the understanding of the universe and its fundamental geometry and iterative properties. 3. 1. And 2 . Are not evolved but iterated. One selection out of an infinite number. Not random in its being selected but pseudo random in its iterations. What is the knowledge of good and evil? Why shouldn’t you have it?
Eating from the tree of the knowledge of good or evil is not specifically knowing the difference between good and evil. It is knowing that without God there is no good or evil.
Thank you, Dr. Iian McGilchrist's for your books and all those you speak with in various fields to help bring about a new way of thinking for the betterment of humanity. When one knows, one doesn't know, and when one doesn't know, the mind remains open to learn, and then and only then one may know and grow. 🙏♥️🌍🌎🌏🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵💫✨️💫
I hear just fine. Thank you both and all those who have Dr. Iian McGilchrist's books and who speaks with him to connecting us all with "we." 🙏♥️🌎🌍🌏🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵💫✨️💫
Nothing is so wholesome than a day of overspill from butchery, larder and dairy in the main fridge of a cold larder for the have. As for us have-nots, well, that is why we have psychiatry to make the rich feel something. For where does one send offcuts. Darling feed them a sausage. Or.... go to a university to pay them even more to say ???
McGilChrist is a diamond in a cesspool of things far smellier than shit. This sort of right hemisphere brain damage is the real (-est) plague in modernity, we need art, we need dreamwalking, we need emotion.
Very good. Found your podcast through a youtube suggestion for your interview with Iain McGilchrist. This is so well connected, and so important contribution to answer the question of: what's next, after taking in "The Matter with Things." Not to say that Helena's work can't legitimate itself.
What our culture prevents us from seeing is entwined truths and falsehoods inherent in descriptive words associated associated with Sight, as we overvalue the abstract sense-of-reality required to create the consensus-reality of interpersonal communication and cooperation. Lacking the Socratic method of self-cross-examination we see disguised in the experiential wisdom of Plato’s dialogues, we use the left hemisphere to grasp terms of description and unwittingly conflate description with definition 'as-if' is human nature and our autobiographical memory sense-of-self and reality is a true understanding of reality. What I find frustrating about Iain's articulation of his hypothetical sense of the unseen and largely unfelt reality of his brain, is a failure to show the interviewer 'how' he functions in this left-right way, in the 'here-now' reality of being-in-time. Hence the comment about pseudo wisdom, I suspect?
The problem with utilising the right hemisphere for extracting meaning from experiences, it can be too subjective or imaginative, created and perspective rather than naturally real and we can end up with too many realities as the right hemisphere can be perceptive of hypnotic illusions.
~Hi. If I may? ( as an old music technician ) I'd try mono at production and boost level from there as needed. Boosting my input so much at this end scares me... as I often click about to other sources.
~Hi. Is " right activity " trained ( seen through... to see something through.. thorough ) or is it intuitive? As I see it, if this " intuit " is both Beast and Baba, then only self-inquiry by Q&A ( informed by method ) gives consistency.
what an obnoxious and deeply ignorant comment. If you had actually read his books you'd realise how embarrassing your comments are. There is a 100+ page chapter in his latest book called The Sense Of The Sacred...does that sound like a "god of the gaps" argument to you?
It's amusing that, for a dude who gripes so much about postmodernist philosophers, he often parrots one of their key positions on language, namely that language doesn't communicate at all; this is rubbish because we communicate all the time; but McGilchrist goes one step further and posits that language oughtn't to be explicit. Even more amusing is that he wrote a massive book and has granted countless hours of interviews in which he uses words to communicate his idea that language is at its best when it's implicit. This self-defeating contradiction was one of the many points postmodernism's detractors made in the 1980s.
@@ideletgijsbertsen9279 Why? Isn't Iain a big defender of intuitive knowledge instead of reason? Intuiting stuff from soundbytes is exactly the world of tomorrow he craves. Otherwise, he wouldn't have filmed more hours of footage than his big book read aloud.
Hi. Is " right activity " trained ( seen through... to see something through.. thorough ) or is it intuitive? As I see it, if this " intuit " is both Beast and Baba, then only self-inquiry by Q&A ( informed by method ) gives consistency.
@@KL0098 ...because that's the only logical conclusion to draw from Iain conducting so many interviews...wrongly intuiting things from soundbites is your expertise, clearly... good grief what on earth is wrong with you?
