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Running Time: 02:09:16 This online event celebrated one year since the publication of The Matter with Things. Reflections on The Matter with Things begins with an in-depth interview with Jonathan Rowson from Perspectiva Press, the book's publisher, followed by...

Running Time: 00:24:48 Dr Iain McGilchrist gives the keynote speech at the AI World Summit, October 2022 in Amsterdam, organised by Inspired Minds. In relation to artificial intelligence, he draws on his latest book, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions...

Running Time: 01:26:17 Dr Iain McGilchrist talks to art historian, Nigel McGilchrist, about his new book, When the Dog speaks, the Philosopher listens - A guide to the greatness of Pythagoras and his curious Age. This book can be purchased via this link...

Running Time: 00:41:47  Iain McGilchrist has been outlining for many years that a fundamental problem in the way we are perceiving the world is likely to lead us into trouble. Now in 2022 he believes the situation is reaching a crucial turning point and we need to...

Running Time: 01:21:28  In this conversation Dr Iain McGilchrist and Professor Nina Kraus draw on their respective books, McGilchrist's The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World, and Kraus' Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs...

Running Time: 0:28:25 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...

Running Time: 01:36:47  Shira Nayman Psy.D talks to Iain McGilchrist about the sacred. This interview is part of a larger interfaith project exploring personal relationships with sacred texts. Shira Nayman interviews scholars, religious leaders, and lay people, across...

Running Time: 1:30:17 In ‘The Matter with Things’, Iain McGilchrist tackles the big questions: Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time? What happens if we neglect the sacred and divine?  He argues that we have become...

Running Time: 01:32:52 In this Earth Talk the respected psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist discusses the hemisphere hypothesis and his latest work the Matter with Things with the founder of Schumacher College, Satish Kumar. Who are we? What is the world? How can...

Running Time: 00:11:20 Russell Brand talks to author, psychiatrist and former Oxford literary scholar, Iain McGilchrist, on Under The Skin, where they discussed perceptions of reality and how your personal approach to the world is what truly matters.

Running Time: 00:06:19 Can we unmake the world we have made? Iain McGilchrist draws on his most recent book, The Matter with Things and discusses whether we can unmake the world we have made and unknow what we know. This clip is from an upcoming documentary film by...

Running Time: 00:17:01 From financial markets and traffic flows to earthquakes, black holes and the distribution of galaxies in the universe, the study of patterns that govern our lives and the natural world has long fascinated mathematicians, scientists and...