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Iain McGilchrist vs Scott Barry Kaufman, The right brain is essential to creativity: IAINews
Introduction: In response to Scott Barry Kaufman’s article yesterday arguing the right-left brain hemisphere split isn’t true, the main proponent of the view, Iain McGilchrist, responds: Scott Barry Kaufman would appear to be way behind the curve on the topic of...
Recovering the sacred, Recovering the Soul: Session 1 of the ‘Recovering the Sacred’ online series – Pari Perspecitve
Abstract: According to Laozi: He who knows does not tell and he who tells does not know. The power of unknowing and not doing is celebrated in Chinese philosophy. Also in the Western tradition. For example, Meister Eckhart in one of his sermons speaks of the...
Science and Metaphysics: A Family Quarrel? by Iain McGilchrist – from the Marginalia Review of Books
Abstract: In the lecture series given in Cambridge in 1951 that formed the basis of his book Science & Humanism, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger observed: It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of...