Iain mcgilchrist the divided brain6/30/2023 ![]() Introduction to the hemispheres/The Matter with Things. ![]() The titles of these talks, each lasting an hour, were: ![]() The purpose of the new book is to try and answer Plotinus’ question, ‘Who are We?’ What is the world and what are we to make of the cosmos and our place in it? The whole book and even, I would say, the Master and His Emissary describes a journey taken in quest of answering this question ‘Who are We?’ and ultimately ends up with the conviction (but not the only one) that we and our world lack a sense of the sacred.Ī friend, who also attended the Field&Field conference, commented that he was impressed by how Iain developed his argument through the series of talks that we listened to, and Iain himself said that he had attempted to unfold the argument. Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, due to be published on November 9 th. This is also the title of the final chapter (Chapter 28, which Ian has called his ‘God’ chapter) of his new book The Matter with Things. ![]() The penultimate talk given by Iain McGilchrist at the 2021 Field&Field conference in the Cotswolds, UK, was ‘The Sense of the Sacred’. ![]()
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