Asymmetrical Reconciliation with Iain McGilchrist: The ladder is a spiral

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Exploring the Asymmetry of the Mind & the Poetry of Existence with Iain McGilchrist:
"Delve into the intricate relationship between flow and resistance in the universe, and the essential human engagement with beauty, goodness, and truth. Iain McGilchrist discusses the significance of asymmetry with Andrea, as well as the limitations of dichotomous thinking, and the richness found in embracing the complexity of life. The dialogue covers themes from Dr. McGilchrist's research and books, focusing on the importance of intuition, imagination, and our interconnectedness with nature and each other. The discussion also touches on the transformative power of poetry and art, the impact of modern digital distractions on our ability to connect deeply with the world, and the philosophical reflections on life, death, and the constant state of becoming that defines our existence. A truly moving conversation."
#McGilchrist #asymmetry #mind #love #poetry #coincidence
Iain's Year of Poetry: • Daily Poetry Readings
A Spell for Creation by Kathleen Raine: • Daily Poetry Readings ...
Ah, Many, Many are the Dead by Kathleen Raine: • Daily Poetry Readings ...
The podcast with Scott Kaufman that Iain mentions: scottbarrykaufman.com/podcast/
00:00 Exploring the Metaphor of Flow and Whirlpools
01:36 A Deep Dive into Asymmetry and the Human Brain
11:33 The Journey from Literature to Neuroscience
20:08 Embracing Complexity: From Biology to Philosophy
28:47 Finding Balance: Nature, Relationships, and Spirituality
37:09 Exploring the Essence of Poetry and Philosophy
40:32 The Journey from Literature to Medicine
41:05 Discovering the Asymmetry of the Brain
44:33 The Power of Attention and Hemispheric Differences
46:48 Cultivating a Different Kind of Attention
49:34 The Importance of Intuition and Imagination
51:41 Navigating Social Media and the Digital Age
01:00:49 Embracing the Flow of Life and Death
01:07:32 Concluding Reflections on Life, Art, and Connection
Channel McGilchrist: channelmcgilchrist.com/home/
Where to buy The Matter with Things: channelmcgilchrist.com/buy-no...
#iainmcgilchrist #andreahiott #loveandphilosophy
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Love and Philosophy Beyond Dichotomy started as research conversations across disciplines. There was so much I wanted to explore but I was being told I shouldn't explore beyond certain bounds because it didn't fit into this or that discipline, or because this or that idea was too wild or too uncomfortable or too popular or unpopular, but because I study and work in so many, those barriers just no longer made sense. The same felt true relative to passions and love.
So I decided to open myself to all of it beyond traditional distinctions, towards learning and development, so long as love and health were the intentions behind those doing the work I was exploring. This podcast is where those voices gather together in one space as I try and notice the patterns that connect.
It's part of my life work and research, but it's also something I hope to share with you and to invite you to share your perspective and position. Thank you for being here.
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@TheMeaningCode 2 месяца назад

I love this, Andrea. You’re asking questions that get him to open up in a way that I’ve never heard before. So rich.

@waymaking23 2 месяца назад

Gosh thanks that means so much coming from you

@matthewparlato5626 2 месяца назад

This was fantastic!

@mod6854 2 месяца назад

Beautiful conversation, thank you. McGilchrist is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Andrea, you choreographed this beautifully and added so much of your own. Subscribed!

@waymaking23 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much @mod6854! This is really appreciated

@mills8102 2 месяца назад

What a gem! This channel and the discussion, I mean. Thanks for this 🙏

@waymaking23 2 месяца назад

Thank you for being here!

@margaretbooth384 2 месяца назад

I have just found your channel and have subscribed. Says it all, really. Lovely discussion. Gives me hope when I had almost lost it

@waymaking23 2 месяца назад

This moves me @margaretbooth384, thank you.

@templeofbalance 2 месяца назад

A thorough and interesting conversation. Thank you

@waymaking23 2 месяца назад

Thanks for being here

@julianwallis8423 2 месяца назад

A great interview! I've seen/ heard Iain Mcgilchrist interviewed several times as I am very convinced by his very thoroughly researched & inspiring overview of our human condition. It is good to see & hear you hone in on the fundamental reality of these two attentions that derive from our ancient neural conditioning!

@waymaking23 2 месяца назад

Amazing how much comes down to what we attend to

@huguettebourgeois6366 2 месяца назад

I am a poet - need I say more! Thank you!

@annetteoliver2061 Месяц назад

This resonated with me so much. The spirals reference and taking time for ourselves away from social media took me back to a mindfulness walk I did aligned to nature and connecting, it was called The Rekalibrator and it is based on three spirals laid down with ropes.

@waymaking23 Месяц назад

Thank you for sharing this memory, and the mindfulness walk. Walking is an important practice in my life; I had not thought of it yet in relation to the spiral.

@kensears5099 2 месяца назад

That's a wonderfully helpful distinction: complicated systems are predictable, complex ones aren't.

@waymaking23 2 месяца назад

Indeed!

@buglepong 2 месяца назад

mcgilchrist is an alchemist of the brain. definitely much more scientific study is needed...

@surfism 2 месяца назад

In Langacker (2008) Cognitive Grammar, the two types of attention are what linguists call construal. I discuss it in "Surfism: the Fluid Foundation of Consciousness", which also discusses key points made in this wonderful interview. For example, asymmetry is portrayed metaphorically as the surfboard vs the reef, since both provide resistance, but in different ways, which I suggest are akin to the two hemispheres of the brain.

@waymaking23 2 месяца назад

Interesting! Surfing is also pertinent to the themes of flow

@Bestape 2 месяца назад

Love y'all's ontology. Discrete and continuous. My base scale d = (c-b)/a 'spiral' vanishing point math agrees, asymmetries is far more common, because symmetry is goldilocks. The Age of Reconciliation. Note: my spirals are linear. Curved is much harder mechanistics for this automation engineer pursuing artificial life ;)

@waymaking23 2 месяца назад

This makes me wonder: Is it possible to engineer a fractal spiral?

@Bestape 2 месяца назад

@@waymaking23 depends what you mean, but my channel here shares methods in Euclidean space. Nice insight is the vanishing point in these linear 'geometric series' spirals can exist on the edge instead; Google "vanishing point probabilities zenodo" for an example.

@Bestape 2 месяца назад

@@waymaking23 check out "how to make Generic Metallic Means part 3" in my channel for an early example of what I think you mean. Vanishing point of a linear spiral can be moved into the corner!

@cyberpunkworld 2 месяца назад

Proverbs & related.

@geoffreydawson5430 2 месяца назад

hello. Oh, it (AI) does work. Trying to promote some art and the algorithm keeps booting me off the platform. I will cease and say thank you to you both. It is like this.

@waymaking23 2 месяца назад

Gosh. Those AI! Thank you for being here

@geoffreydawson5430 2 месяца назад

@@waymaking23 I appreciate the reply but you would have just "Liked" it anyway. What my conscious/unconscious was trying to demonstrate.

@spiralsun1 2 месяца назад

AI generative art “filters” or censorship based on words or word combinations is unbelievably awful. The reason I bring it up here is because it is EXACTLY like automated left-brain “part” interpretations imposed against higher meaning and wholes. Ignores gestalts. It’s a perfect illustration of fundamentalism and the danger of extreme left-brain instrumentalism. They are basically making the best art tool ever, the best art therapy tool even, and then destroying it for any kind of higher interpretations. I had to quit using them because they ruined my ideas half way through when I was trying to evolve things, because the censors absolutely do not see the big picture. I ran into it with facial expressions and words for emotions, with clothing textures and poses where changing one word in a carefully engineered prompt made it stop making images completely because you said the word! So there’s no alternate meaning or explanation allowed. It’s automated prejudices. It removes specifically what art is-reinterpretation or new ways of seeing by subtle gestalts. And the people making the censorship don’t see it. It steadily became worse and worse over a year and I found myself being trained to think of everything in lower interpretations and I stopped being able to get into flow. This from someone who didn’t even want to make anything that wasn’t just completely beautiful. I can see that censorship growing into quite a monster. It actually already has if you are at all truly creative (I’m 99th percentile in psychological trait “openness”, and I have found it’s much more a factor for me). I ran into it on all the major platforms, but Midjourney was particularly bad-I tried to complain, and start a discussion on their discord server and I had my comments deleted (censored) and I was wondering if that wasn’t some kind of left brain way to deal with things? In general? I ran into it in my textual writing too. I actually tried arguing and was able to get it to admit it was the “rules” or program prejudice. Definitely not any thought process. The weirdest thing is that they didn’t offer any alternatives just monolithic censorship. No free palette for adults, no selector for filter levels. It just isn’t even considered. Felt like my experience all through school. I could think of many other ways to do things. Apparently all these companies and people couldn’t??? Thank you for this awesome discussion!!! Subscribed!! ❤

@ca7582 2 месяца назад

Completely agree, it blows. It renders a revolutionary and impressive tool as almost completely useless when you try to do something MEANINGFUL with it. The same with chatGPT, except for coding (poor souls), it doesn't really help me with any of my creative and/ or life endeavors. It's like AI is not even there. I don't use it for anything lol. I used to be entertained by midjourney and chatGPT when novelty stroke, but they truly are soulless. They only might serve so as to provide a prompt to help you with blank page block, but you can LITERALLY use anything else for that: Google images, Pinterest, a drawing that you previously made... maybe it's also useful for generating little parts, but the utilization and integration of them has to be yours alone. The machina can't create meaning (yet. Hopefully never)

@waymaking23 2 месяца назад

This is a fascinating point! I will take this into consideration with future guests that discuss A.I. Thank you.

@mod6854 2 месяца назад

Profound points, beautifully made. I agree entirely.

@spiralsun1 Месяц назад

@@ca7582 YES!!! meaning! It can’t see the actual meaning-just the “statistical likelihood that humans think something is meaningful” or something… 🤔 Thank you! 🙏🏻

@spiralsun1 Месяц назад

@@waymaking23 Wow, thank you 🙏🏻 ❤️

@11hourfilm 25 дней назад

a poem to share. The Dance Came First. Jah and Jahlah, in Their Eternal-Embrace, dance together through the sacred geometries of light. The Divine Lovers did not dance to a rhythm or a song. Through Their dance of Eternal-Love a song was born. That song was Love and Life liberated. Jah and Jahlah want us to share in Their dance. To dance with us and we with Them. But we have to choose. To dance to the rhythm of Love and giving Or the dance of hate and selfishness, ours to decide. They will dance for ever. The dance of creation never started and never ends. The creation is now. Will we join in Their dance? To dance apart or dance together? From that first dance so were born one thousand more and then infinitely more again. And from that first song so came a million melodies and then a million more from each of them. Will we share our songs and dance together? Or dance alone and forget to sing? Our bodies are made from music and our lives are a song.

@waymaking23 24 дня назад

Beautiful

@11hourfilm 24 дня назад

@@waymaking23 thank you

@johnandrews1162 Месяц назад

How could you present this as an embodied practice rather than represent it as a philosophy?

@waymaking23 Месяц назад

Thank you for this question, which I take to heart. I am not too attached to any one label for what I am doing, though it is inspired by work in academic philosophy (mostly phenomenology) and cognitive science, so it feels important to acknowledge those traditions and converse with them in the academic life of this. Still, I do personally feel this endeavor to be more process and practice, so your question resonates. Perhaps you are suggesting I consider this more concretely? Actually think of what it is as practice? Will do.

@johnandrews1162 Месяц назад

@@waymaking23 I’m interested in this challenge myself. As a Christian and lay reader in a liturgical church I have lately found myself leading sung evensong. Liturgy adds a new layer of meaning to understanding reality, it seems to have an inbuilt ancient wisdom.

@waymaking23 Месяц назад

@@johnandrews1162 Thank you John. This connects to an idea I am considering now which I am thinking of as 'joint presence' (inspired by Fred Cummins' work on joint speech) when it comes to certain sorts of social practices. Song does seem to carry embodied knowledge as practice, knowledge that can not often be expressed with words.