The Matter With Things: The Case for Shifting Our Attention – in person event
The Matter With Things: The Case for Shifting Our Attention – in person event 9th May 2023 (in person event) Event description. In person at: La Fabrique de la Paix – Geneva Graduate Institute Maison de la Paix (Petal 2, 4th Floor) Chemin Eugène-Rigot, 2...
Perspectives on the Nature of Reality To Inform Systemic Change – in person event – in person event
Perspectives on the Nature of Reality To Inform Systemic Change – in person event – in person event 8th May 2023 (registration 5th May latest due to limited spaces) Event description. The event aims to share an innovative and trans-disciplinary thesis...
The Master’s Theory of Everything: A review of Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World – author Marius Dorobantu, from ‘Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology’, 2023, 2-1, pp. 6-17.
Abstract: When pointing towards inanimate objects, chimpanzees use their right hand, whereas when pointing towards living creatures, they do it with their left. Such a striking difference can, to some extent, also be noticeable in humans: for grasping things, we...
Two Minds – by Wendell Berry
Human orders – scientific, artistic, social, economic, and political – are fictions. They are untrue, not because they necessarily are false, but because they necessarily are incomplete. All of our human orders, however inclusive we may try to make them, turn out to be some degree exclusive. And so we are always being surprised by something we find, too late, that we have excluded. Think of almost any political revolution or freedom movement or the ozone hole or mad cow disease or the events of September 11, 2001.