Contemporary Articles
This area of Channel McGilchrist is dedicated to articles of interest on contemporary topics as chosen by Dr Iain McGilchrist.
Iain McGilchrist Explains The Paradox Of Consciousness – Iain McGilchrist Speaking with the Freedom Pact
Running Time: 00:10:37
Members’ Q&A – Thursday 6th June 2024
Thursday 6th June 2024, 6.00pm to 7.45pm UK time This event is open to Channel McGilchrist members only. As a Channel McGilchrist member, you have the unique opportunity to put a question to Iain for a live Q&A session via Zoom. These Q&As take place every...
Asymmetrical Reconciliation with Andrea Hiott and Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 01:17:14
A Medicine More Fit for Humanity – 2024 John P McGovern Lecture, Duke University, USA
Running Time: 01:29:49
Surviving the Future: The Deeper Dive – Shaun Chamberlin with Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 00:45:36
Theology, Art, and the Whole Brain: A Conversation with Dr. Jeremy Begbie and Dr. Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 01:02:23
Left Versus Right Hemisphere: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Syndrome – David Murray
Dr Iain McGilchrist’s work on neuroscience has widened the scope of theoretical knowledge of the brain and its functions. His books are written in simple terminology accessible to the layman. In describing insights into the relationship between the hemispheres of the human brain, McGilchrist lays out theories that are integral to an evolving understanding of the subject. His conclusion is that civilisation itself is in danger if current trends in human cognitive behaviour continue. More optimistically, he explains how humanity has been here before and survived.
Your Control Freak Left Brain – Feed Your Head, with Iain McGilchrist and Rabbi Adam Jacobs
Running Time: 00:45:36
The World is Under a Spell with Iain McGilchrist and Jordi Pigem
Tuesday 30th April 2024, 6.00pm to 7.30pm UK time Online event, via Zoom £10 public FREE for Members and Patrons of Channel McGilchrist (you will still need to register for this event)We have more knowledge than ever, and yet the world is getting worse. Isn't it as if...
Buddhism is an Ideal Practice and Potent Tool for Balancing the Left and Right Hemispheres of the Human Brain by Nilantha Ilangamuwa
In this interview with Dr. Iain McGilchrist, a distinguished authority in neuroscience, we explore the nuances of contemporary society, education, and the profound implications of technological advancement, particularly artificial intelligence (AI). Dr. McGilchrist, renowned for his extensive scholarship on hemispheric specialization within the human brain, provides insights into the imbalance between mechanistic thinking and holistic understanding, advocating a critical reassessment of educational paradigms.debate.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa – Connecting the Brain’s Missing Links: My Talk with Iain McGilchrist
by Nilantha Ilangamuwa April 3, 2024: 11 mins readDr. Iain McGilchrist, the renowned psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher, and literary scholar [Credit: File Photo]In this interview with Dr. Iain McGilchrist, a distinguished authority in neuroscience,...
How Our Brains Turned Fools Woke – Dr. Iain McGilchrist (4K) | heretics. 33 with Andrew Gold
Running Time: 01:11:11
Iain McGilchrist On The Paradox of Living, Finding Awe, and The Drivers of The Mental Health Crisis
Running Time: 01:04:16
Human Nature and the Divided Brain – Iain McGilchrist and Larry Arnn
Running Time: 00:45:36
The ‘Bishop’s Day’ Series Canterbury 2023 #1 Opening Worship
Running Time: 00:27:24
The ‘Bishop’s Day’ Series Canterbury 2023 #2 Session 1
Running Time: 00:56:05
The ‘Bishop’s Day’ Series Canterbury 2023 #3 Session 2
Running Time: 00:58:41
The ‘Bishop’s Day’ Series Canterbury 2023 #4 Session 3
Running Time: 01:02:05
The ‘Bishop’s Day’ Series Canterbury 2023 #5 Session 4
Running Time: 00:57:46
Webinar ‘Artificial intelligence and the real thing’ by Iain McGilchrist – Embassy of the Free Mind
Thursday 25 April 2024 19:30pm to 21:00pm CEST 18:30pm to 20:00pm (UK time) (online event)Machines cannot understand. They can work out what look like the consequences of data according to extrapolations they have had fed into them by human beings – some of them...
Iain McGilchrist interviewed by Scott Barry Kaufman. The Great Right Brain Debate
The idea of the brain being split into right and left hemispheres that do radically different things has entered the popular imagination. Following an article exchange on the IAI, Scott Barry Kaufman and Iain McGilchrist finally meet to investigate the remaining untouched ground in this mind-melding debate
Iain McGilchrist & Damien Walter on the Mythos and the Machine
Running Time: 01:54:11
Dr Todd Pringle, Dr Michael Robinson and Dr Iain McGilchrist in Conversation : The Crosswinds Institute
Running Time: 01:55:33
NDSU – The Dakota Review : Tyler Henry Waltz and Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 00:50:49
A Revolution in Thought? – Dr Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 01:04:11
Iain McGilchrist: Dominus Illuminatio Mea: Our Brains, Our Delusions, & the Future of the University
Running Time: 01:19:14
A Revolution in Thought? – Dr Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 01:04:11
The Fairchild Lecture Series Philosophy and Religion Forum Spring 2024
Reflections on Mind, Body, Soul Friday 12th April 2024, 11 am CST(zoom event)The Spring 2024 Forum talks are hosted on Zoom. The meetings are available at the following link: Topic: Philosophy & Religion Forum Join Zoom...
The nature and importance of brain asymmetry; an afternoon with Iain McGilchrist – The RCP’s Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group, London.
Friday 5th April 2024, from 1pm (in-person event) Event description. Dr Iain McGilchrist is a retired psychiatrist and clinical director. He was previously an Oxford don in English literature. He has authored a number of major works that have attracted worldwide...
Resist the Machine Apocalypse by Iain McGilchrist – 2024
No two ways about it: We are making ourselves wretched. We are more affluent than ever, but riches—and power, the only point in having riches—do not make people happy. Ask a psychiatrist. Or take a look at the face of Vladimir Putin, who has, alas, the power of life and death over millions of people and is the owner of the most expensive toilet-paper dispenser in the world. No, affluent as we are, we are also more anxious, depressed, lonely, isolated, and lacking in purpose than ever. Why is this? I suggest it is because we no longer have the foggiest idea what human life is about. Indeed, there is a sense in which we no longer live in a world at all, but exist in a simulacrum of our own making.
Is Creativity Essential to Understanding the Universe? | Roger Penrose and Iain McGilchrist at the Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI)
Running Time: 00:10:22
The ‘Bishop’s Day Series’: Canterbury 2023 (#1: Opening Worship)
The ‘Bishop’s Day Series’: Canterbury 2023 (#2: Session 1)
The ‘Bishop’s Day Series’: Canterbury 2023 (#3: Session 2)
The ‘Bishop’s Day Series’: Canterbury 2023 (#4: Session 3)
The ‘Bishop’s Day Series’: Canterbury 2023 (#5: Session 4)
The Fargo Radio Podcast : Craig Blumenshine with Dr Iain McGilchrist – January 2024
A Holistic Response to Cultural Decline with Dr Luke Martin and Dr Iain McGilchrist – Creed and Culture E:31
Running Time: 00:46:04
2024 John P McGovern Lecture, Duke University, USA – A Medicine More Fit for Humanity
Tuesday 2nd April 2024, 5.30pm, the Great Hall, Trent Semans Centre (in-person event) Event description. We live in an age in which we cede more and more of life to machines, raising questions for the practice of medicine. What is the calling of medicine? Is it not...
CONFERENCE VISION AND RATIONALE: San Francisco, CA – Co-organized by California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) & Center for Process Studies (CPS)
Friday, March 29th to Sunday, March 31st, 2024 (in person event) Event description. Iain McGilchrist’s recent magnum opus The Matter With Things (2021) constitutes one of the most significant contributions to the contemporary process tradition as revealed through...