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Welcoming Dr Iain McGilchrist, renowned psychiatrist, neuroscientist, philosopher and literary scholar, in dialogue with Tim Adalin for Voicecraft.
We explore the relation between cosmic drives, the left and right hemispheres, attention, religion, power, good, evil, AI and the soul.
Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ voicecraft.io/content/e139-cosmic-drives-intuition-ai-and-the-soul-w/-iain-mcgilchrist-and-tim-adalin
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0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:04 What is Intuition?
0:02:28 Intuition and the Hemispheres
0:04:41 The Basis of Understanding
0:08:13 Left and Right Hemisphere Dynamics
0:11:49 Participation in Reality
0:18:29 Bundling and Unbundling: Economics and AI
0:23:11 Dividing and Uniting: When and Why
0:30:02 Understanding vs. Information
0:34:19 Animate and Inanimate: A Continuum
0:42:53 The Artificial Intelligence Predicament
0:54:26 Narcissism and Echo Chambers
1:00:43 Consciousness as Field
1:07:15 Cancer, Bureaucracy, and Runaway Systems
1:17:09 The Assault on Nature, Body, and Culture
1:25:00 Authority, Doubt, and Transformation
1:34:12 Religion, Certainty, and Common Truths
1:40:57 The Soul and Life as Pilgrimage
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Dr Iain McGilchrist is a renowned psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and his influential work explores the relationship between the brain's hemispheres and the nature of human experience, reality, and culture.
He is the author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World and the monumental two-volume work The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World.
Find his YouTube channel @driain
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Tim Adalin is a philosopher and the founder of The Voicecraft Project.
Connect with Tim @ https://www.timadalin.xyz
Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0
Welcoming Dr Iain McGilchrist, renowned psychiatrist, neuroscientist, philosopher and literary scholar, in dialogue with Tim Adalin for Voicecraft.
We explore the relation between cosmic drives, the left and right hemispheres, attention, religion, power, good, evil, AI and the soul.
Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ voicecraft.io/content/e139-cosmic-drives-intuition-ai-and-the-soul-w/-iain-mcgilchrist-and-tim-adalin
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0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:04 What is Intuition?
0:02:28 Intuition and the Hemispheres
0:04:41 The Basis of Understanding
0:08:13 Left and Right Hemisphere Dynamics
0:11:49 Participation in Reality
0:18:29 Bundling and Unbundling: Economics and AI
0:23:11 Dividing and Uniting: When and Why
0:30:02 Understanding vs. Information
0:34:19 Animate and Inanimate: A Continuum
0:42:53 The Artificial Intelligence Predicament
0:54:26 Narcissism and Echo Chambers
1:00:43 Consciousness as Field
1:07:15 Cancer, Bureaucracy, and Runaway Systems
1:17:09 The Assault on Nature, Body, and Culture
1:25:00 Authority, Doubt, and Transformation
1:34:12 Religion, Certainty, and Common Truths
1:40:57 The Soul and Life as Pilgrimage
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Dr Iain McGilchrist is a renowned psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and his influential work explores the relationship between the brain's hemispheres and the nature of human experience, reality, and culture.
He is the author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World and the monumental two-volume work The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World.
Find his YouTube channel @driain
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Tim Adalin is a philosopher and the founder of The Voicecraft Project.
Connect with Tim @ https://www.timadalin.xyz
Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0
