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Asymmetry and Symmetry - Dr Iain McGilchrist 

Dr Iain McGilchrist
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Dr Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the most widely misunderstood ideas about asymmetry and symmetry. Drawing on his latest book, the Matter with Things, he explains how asymmetry is the greater of the two. Some of the questions he addresses are:
What are the roles of asymmetry and symmetry?
Where do chaos and order meet?
What would it be like for our brains to operate in the poetic domain?
What are examples of asymmetrical and symmetrical things in the natural world?
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21 ноя 2022

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@jollyroger9286
@jollyroger9286 Год назад
Almost finished reading The Master and his Emissary and it's already one of the most impactful works I've ever come across. The way you lay the scientific/empirical foundation with clinical observations and then build an ontology on top is just brilliant. And how it manages to provide a living picture of its thesis without renouncing to scientific rigor or falling in the constraints of language. The proof is in the pudding indeed!
@kipling1957
@kipling1957 Год назад
I really like this new format, which is clearly one side of a conversation. It gets quickly to the point. The question screens could be up for a few seconds more for us slower readers, my only criticism.
@malakiblunt
@malakiblunt Год назад
Sharpening is quite literally the process of narrowing the edge of a blade - the tyranny of words
@malakiblunt
@malakiblunt Год назад
i liken the balance between technical mastery and artistic freedom like a game of tennis i practice technique and my work gets academic and soulless, so i hit the ball back towards freedom and before it reaches the other side of meaningless scribbles there is a sweet spot were the too are in balance, the technique allows me to say what i want but the freedom gives it life and reality . Its not easy staying in the middle
@gjingodjango
@gjingodjango Год назад
The statue of Amenotep III in the British Museum is an example of a work of art perfectly symmetrical.
@Krasbin
@Krasbin Год назад
27:00 In the Kindle version, you should be able to use the search function. Any decent app should have that.
@nitahill6951
@nitahill6951 Год назад
People confuse symmetry with balance.
@SamuelJFord
@SamuelJFord Год назад
When I was a child I used to go fossil hunting on a beach near Whitby with my family. You would find these almost spherical 'nodules' dotted around the beach which would more often than not contain an ammonite, the archetypal image of the golden ratio in nature. When you would crack the nodule with a hammer the rock would split perfectly down the middle into two halves, one containing the ammonite itself, the other containing the negative cast of the fossil in the rock - the thing itself and its reflection.
@bertus-janmeijer5221
@bertus-janmeijer5221 Год назад
Yes Iain! This is so close to the core of what I think you are trying to get across. Here’s the thing; perfection cannot be. It implies repetition of some original. This reality cannot support pure replication. So life, growth, existence need at least a tiny amount of ‘imperfection’ to be. Otherwise it would be the original. True perfection is fully authentic. And authenticity therefore a silly goal. Like most contemporary goals, they are merely byproducts of the playful artistic proces that life seems to be. Thank you Iain, you open up new horizons….how I wish I could spend a few days in exchange with the man who is almost the full opposite of me while yet we agree at the heart…. Having a natural right brain perspective I struggle in this world of details and focus. While at the same time cursed with a brutal clarity that has no words or arguments. So, what do I have to add? Hands and feet. Very down to earth ways of putting a more balanced approach into practice….
@yoanlopez7287
@yoanlopez7287 Год назад
Thank you for all this wisdom
@gedofgont1006
@gedofgont1006 Год назад
Good old Iain: never less than compellingly human. But who can hear him, amidst the tumult of modern life?
@jackforeman2742
@jackforeman2742 Год назад
We’ve had it so wrote say order out of chaos; ought it be said out of order some chaos comes?
@barbarajohnson1442
@barbarajohnson1442 Год назад
Large Piece of Turf by Durer, is my favorite painting of all time. Well, also next would be St Francis in the Desert by Bellini..... great talk, thank you.
@susancherian6359
@susancherian6359 Год назад
Thanks 🙏🏼 Also that adding of the letter a to change the meaning of the word is from Tamil
@kiljoy3254
@kiljoy3254 Год назад
Not having watched all this, re regularity and symmetry not incorporating irregularity and symmetry, I was just thinking this morning about the expression ‘to square to circle’... isn’t the more important thing to circle the square?
@kiljoy3254
@kiljoy3254 Год назад
To square *the* circle 🙄
@cynthiaford6976
@cynthiaford6976 Год назад
I love that, Against Perfection! So many cosmologies and theologies point to some other world of perfection which we have fallen from. Heaven will be hygienic. Might be unconsciously based on the fact that under pathogen stress (most of human history) we prefer symmetry and visible healthiness and attractiveness in people, and we infuse our spiritual models with that, and our long outrage at fate and embodiment makes us wish to evade those or imagine evading them. Might even be why we are so seduced by the left hemisphere. Perfect but dead. And our ancestral gifts of ways to be embodied in communalities of bodies get jettisoned. Then our longed for perfection through the machine and transhumanism, the brain as blank slate, sexual dimorphism (difficult since the shift from estrus to menstruation) repudiated and smeared into thousands of genders. Pied Beauty By Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things - For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced - fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.
@S.G.Wallner
@S.G.Wallner Год назад
Anyone considered the sort of symmetrical asymmetry of (edit) *some fractals? When Dr. McGilchrist talks about symmetry the analogy feels mostly like reflectional. I have not read The Matter With Things. Does he explain any rotational symmetries or asymmetries?
@billiverschoore2466
@billiverschoore2466 Год назад
And isn't English the bést language for humour; it is vastly and twistably ambiguous. Long seem to be gone the days when true art meant going beyond deep knowledge of the technique... I savour your videos; language, the use of it, and the user of it intrigue me. 🙏🏽🌳🕊💚
@audreybertelson1972
@audreybertelson1972 Месяц назад
Yes imperfection can hold perfection in it but i dont think its necessarily greater because imperfection cant exist without perfection
@kiljoy3254
@kiljoy3254 Год назад
Iain, if you see this, I recommend the recent conversation between Jordan Peterson and Yoram Hazony. I think you ought to talk to Hazony, he’s brilliant!
@kiljoy3254
@kiljoy3254 Год назад
By the way... you use Descartes to effectively illustrate the drawbacks, dangers, of dichotomising... I think that’s fair to say. Hazony does basically posit one rather fundamental dichotomy; that between the “political order of independent national states” and Imperialism. He claims, for instance, that WWI and WWII were far more the consequences of Imperialism than nationalism.
@kiljoy3254
@kiljoy3254 Год назад
Thinking of anomie, as discussed by Hazony and Peterson. Outside your Alma mater there’s a memorial to transgender victims; flowers and eulogies etc. I’ve not researched it but the text reads that an estimated (probably a gross underestimation, according to the author) 400 hundred transgender persons have ‘passed’ this year (or ‘passed away’). I’d guess they probably all committed suicide, however the text, the language, is very clearly that of indignant accusation I.e they are victims of “brutal” “bigotry” and “violence” People reject God and when the inevitable consequences arise, those people who embrace anything goes then get very angry and project all the blame onto those people (some of them no doubt bigoted) who have more traditional grounding in the world.
@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices
@@kiljoy3254 leftism: Otherwise known as “progressivism” and even more inaccurately as “liberalism”, leftism is a term originating from the French Revolution of 1789, in reference to the political faction that opposed the French (so-called) king. However, the term is currently used in common discourse to describe those criminals who actively support (or at least tacitly condone) a host of OBJECTIVELY-WICKED ideologies and practices that contravene dharma, such as non-monarchical governances and corrupt economic systems (particularly socialism, communism, fascism, and liberal democracies), egalitarianism, feminism, perverse sexuality (especially homosexuality, bestiality, and transvestism), multiculturalism, and the illegitimate abortion of innocent, defenceless unborn children. Cf. “dharma”. In the past decade or two, the mass media, especially the motion picture industry and television production companies, has been aggressively promoting all the above CRIMINAL ideologies and practices, helping to expedite the destruction of human civilization. Recently, large corporations have jumped on the leftist bandwagon (so to speak), in order to profit. As explicated in Chapter 11 of this “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, the state of being of any particular human (or any other animal for that matter) is due entirely to his or her genetic sequencing and his or her conditioning. Therefore, the explosion of the leftist/liberal mentality in recent decades, particularly in Western countries, has been caused by poor breeding strategies overtaking the more conservative tradition of mate-selection of previous centuries (and indeed, millennia). In other words, due to the fact that criminal behaviour (especially the deviant sexual acts mentioned above) has become increasingly more tolerated, condoned, and even GLORIFIED in most countries, there has been a proliferation of corrupt genetic codes within the wider human population. According to genealogists, for (almost) the entire history of humanity, most women have successfully reproduced, whilst a far far smaller percentage of males have bequeathed their genetic sequence to proceeding generations. Due to the gradual phasing-out of polygamous marriages in even the most conservative societies, as well as the eradication of poverty in most every country, more and more men (as well as women) have been producing offspring. Thus, the human genome has rapidly become adulterated by inferior genetic material (that is, DNA from truly pathetic, uxorious beta-males, bisexuals, and even homosexual couples who engage surrogate mothers or sperm donors in order to conceive children - something of a rare occurrence in previous centuries/millennia). Unsurprisingly, the majority of leftists find it difficult to accept the fact that their criminal mentality is largely inherited (and of course, they are unwilling to acknowledge the blatantly-obvious fact that their ideologies and practices are intrinsically sinful, wicked, evil, and immoral in the first place). It seems the consensus amongst leftist "intellectuals" is that every human mental trait is due entirely to one's environmental conditioning, rather than as a consequence of BOTH one's genetic sequence and one’s conditioning - a fundamentally-flawed assertion that cannot be scientifically-supported. This term was very reluctantly used in the chapter on feminism. I say “reluctantly” because it is unlikely that the term will perdure for many decades longer. This is simple deductive logic, since, as clearly demonstrated in certain chapters in “F.I.S.H”, human civilization cannot survive with such leftist practices and ideologies in place. If you happen to be reading this Holy Scripture a century or more after its conception, you will probably be residing in a nation (as opposed to a country) ruled by a monarch, following the implosion of post-modern, decadent societies. So, either the term “leftism” will eventually become redundant and obsolete, or else, human civilization will devolve into a decadent, diseased state of existence similar to that of the prehistoric era, when the peoples of the world resided in caves or shacks, subsisting on whatever food can be sourced from the surrounding bushland. I trust that you who are reading these wise words will endeavour to influence your social circles to adhere to right-leaning ideologies, such as monarchical governance, an entirely free-market economy, sexual purity, and all other virtuous principles. Fear not, for GOD is with you! P.S. As a general rule, it seems (at least anecdotally) that the farther left-leaning is a person, the more physically (and of course, psychologically) UGLY is that person. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to prevent leftists from propagating their mutant genes. 🤡
@kiljoy3254
@kiljoy3254 Год назад
@@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices thank you for your reply. I intend to properly consider it at some point and respond. May be of some interest that Sky News Australia has just posted a discussion with Jordan Peterson; I’ve not seen it all but at about 13mins Jordan is discussing the crisis of young men, and drawing attention to the likelihood of them having a mother essentially poisoned by feminism. Roughly that. I think of the film Joker, when Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) looks at a photo of the mother he has murdered; she is youthful and looks like she benefited from a privileged upbringing but she blew it all on the hedonistic pursuit of ‘bad boys’ and of course Arthur suffered terribly as consequence. He screws up the photo and discards it. That I think captures the crisis. But don’t expect Vanessa Dylan to agree, and sadly there White Knights too numerous to defend such refusal to see what should be pretty obvious.
@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices
@@kiljoy3254 Do you use any of the following terms? • gay • homophobia/homophobe • transphobia/transphobe • trans-sexual • transgender • cis gender • sex worker • capitalism/capitalist • any pronoun other than he/she, him/her Then CONGRATULATIONS - you are (either knowingly or unwittingly) a shill for the loony left!
@jamesboswell9324
@jamesboswell9324 Год назад
The Devil's Advocate in me wants to know whether mandalas are not examples of symmetrical art. I am also wondering about Islamic patterns - how do these fit in?
@finnmacdiarmid3250
@finnmacdiarmid3250 Год назад
“Only a Sith deals in absolutes” -George Lucas
@voornaamachternaam6159
@voornaamachternaam6159 Год назад
One might sayt that this is also an absolute statement.
@borodel619
@borodel619 Год назад
Very simple. Assymetrie is growing to a new level. Mostly it is a time of discomfort. The ( covid ) time we are in now. After that time we have to rest. Then we are in Symmetrie. After a long time, some people are ready to grow again, while the most people want to rest ( governement). I am in a lot of discomfort now, but it is exciting, because I know I will make a new step, same with mother earth. Morther earth is in discomfort now ( earthquakes) ect. See also George Kavassilas, our yourney home. This is for the 10% whoare ready to go for a quantum step. 😃
@geoffreydawson5430
@geoffreydawson5430 Год назад
Hence why my therapist struggles with his achievement when I meditate according to a Buddhist monk, a previous AI academic, now ordained 30+ years, who does not allow his monks to read within the monastery or the Buddhist religious texts (the therapist's fault, they encouraged a secular 7-day silent meditation retreat with a previously ordained Theravadan monk). Practice! Breathe in and out, but they do memorise Buddhist ethical rules. From a Western perspective, the globalised world provides an avenue to pursue other means of enlightenment. So, live with an aware heart and keep moving forward. Or read the latest rebirth. No No, I really very much appreciate my therapist, just lost in the "meaning crisis". Having been to the birthplace of the Buddha, and delved into Tibetan and Mayahana Buddhism I found Theravadan Buddhism liberating despite its conservative nature. Why? It has no ideology but can flow into others quite happily when one has a choice of how to act ethically. As much as I dislike the Tibetan overthrow by China I do question why a Buddhist nation imprisoned their hierarchical ruler in a castle when that was what the Buddha escaped from to realise that suffering exists. My highly detailed realist painting tutor made me paint precisely what I saw and would only critique my work when my values (grey scale of colour) were off. But always argued that his teaching method was just that, a teaching method. Once you can judge values seamlessly go forth as an artist with flare and a spirit to express your own meaning.
@Entertainment-jv8xw
@Entertainment-jv8xw 6 месяцев назад
The left can't meme
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