Perspectives on the Nature of Reality to Inform Systemic Change Dr Iain McGilchrist,CERN,Switzerland

Event Details: This event took place on the 08.05.2023
Location: CERN - Meyrin, Switzerland
Dr. Iain McGilchrist spoke at the IdeaSquare innovation space of CERN to discuss the nature of reality from the perspective of the human brain and philosophy. The event was hosted in conjunction with Terraforming - a pilot course equipping students with big-scale systems thinking abilities and how to induce societal change.
Event Details and Links
Terraforming link - indico.cern.ch/event/1272142/
Chair: Dr. Ameer Shaheed
Host: Tuuli Utriainen
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  • @zaydeshaddox7015
    @zaydeshaddox70152 ай бұрын

    When I was in high school, I took a calligraphy class and ended up having many interesting conversations with my teacher after class was over. At one point, I decided to ask him for some advice on living the rest of my life. He said, "Seek to become a Renaissance man" and went on to define that as developing *both* sides of my brain as much as possible. I am now 53 years old and I feel like Dr. McGilchrist is validating that journey. I think everyone should become a Renaissance "man" (person).

  • @slowwco
    @slowwco5 ай бұрын

    Some favorite Iain McGilchrist quotes from this presentation: "I'm not suggesting there is one single easy reality. I'm not suggesting there is one ever knowable truth. I'm suggesting we mustn't ever give up on the idea that it is worthwhile for a human life-in fact, it is imperative for a human life-to be searching for such a reality and such a truth. Otherwise, we are frankly deluded, and I believe that much of the world I now live in is suicidally deluded." "What scientists don't see anymore is there is no such thing as just 'looking' because the way you attend, the preconceptions in which you attend, alters what you find." "We don't want *either* either/or *or* both/and; we need *both* either/or *and* both/and. The unity of difference and unity."

  • @aqua6613

    @aqua6613

    4 ай бұрын

    Sometimes the reality hits you 😅 Maybe the truth you're out searching to find already exists within you and you're searching for it out there, getting lost and all when it's always been with you 😊

  • @sarahpersonalexcellenceguide

    @sarahpersonalexcellenceguide

    20 күн бұрын

    It's called non-duality. Look up Alan Watts, he'll explain it to ya. :)

  • @summondadrummin2868
    @summondadrummin28684 ай бұрын

    As a young man I was baffled that people did not see the world as interconnected, your work significantly explains the reasons for that.

  • @beeftimer

    @beeftimer

    3 ай бұрын

    Tell me something: how does one significantly explain something? Better yet, how does one insignificantly explain something?

  • @dixonhill1108

    @dixonhill1108

    22 күн бұрын

    It's because it's really hard to do anything when you see it as a continuum. To do much of anything you need to pretend everything is reducible to parts. Or at least it was pre modern computing.

  • @aimhigh3701
    @aimhigh37015 ай бұрын

    Me during my 20 minute lunch break whilst watching KZread on my phone: "Let me watch this lecture on how Perspectives on the Nature of Reality can Inform Systemic Change."

  • @Hyumanity

    @Hyumanity

    5 ай бұрын

    Aim high, tell the truth, and see where that gets ya.

  • @aimhigh3701

    @aimhigh3701

    5 ай бұрын

    @@Hyumanity Aye aye captain!

  • @thomascromwell6840

    @thomascromwell6840

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@HyumanityProbably thrown out of your house if you're a gay kid in a conservative house.

  • @nicbarth3838

    @nicbarth3838

    5 ай бұрын

    @@thomascromwell6840 what does your comment mean I genuinely don't understand

  • @khatharrmalkavian3306

    @khatharrmalkavian3306

    4 ай бұрын

    @nicbarth3838 It means he has nothing to contribute but wants to complain about something unrelated.

  • @spiritfilled5758
    @spiritfilled57585 ай бұрын

    Mr. Iain McGilchrist, I adore you and your teaching & understanding, I'm not an intellectually educated woman, but I do instinctively understand the wholeness of the world view you are sharing with the world. I can only hope that we as wise sentient beings will unify our world view. Wow what fascinating possibilities

  • @MikeFuller-ok6ok

    @MikeFuller-ok6ok

    5 ай бұрын

    You type very well for an unintellectually educated woman! I am poor at reading but I like great minds, favourite public intellectuals including Goethe, Bronowski, Jonathan Miller, Said, Zizek, McGilchrist and Peterson. A lot of what these highly intelligent people speak about though, I haven't got a clue.

  • @immanny85

    @immanny85

    4 ай бұрын

    Snowflake

  • @DouglasHPlumb

    @DouglasHPlumb

    4 ай бұрын

    You are asking the impossible. Statutory religions will always create alternate realities and wars which are fought for money. People will always be for sale. People will always be stupid.

  • @joobinmcgroobin5181

    @joobinmcgroobin5181

    4 ай бұрын

    Yo he's a fucking Doctor - show some respect.

  • @davidmears1705

    @davidmears1705

    3 ай бұрын

    Snowflake and a quack

  • @theprofessionalpeer
    @theprofessionalpeer4 ай бұрын

    Thank you and AMEN!!! I work in a Psychiatric hospital and as a "person of lived experience", it's nice to hear a learned mind validate my beliefs and practices... I guess it's paid to be a left-handed, creative & complex person, after all. Can't wait to share.

  • @anoopsidhu6525
    @anoopsidhu65253 ай бұрын

    This was a VERY compelling lecture. Thank you for making this public. Reminds me of the quote, "I promise if you look for everything beautiful in the world, you will eventually become it." - Tyler Kent White

  • @wordnative
    @wordnative5 ай бұрын

    “Artist get nervous when there’s only one point of view …having always loved perspective as we do.” S.

  • @Mystery_G
    @Mystery_G5 ай бұрын

    Human consciousness will make great leaps and bounds when modern scientists come to the general consensus in the value of unifying science with the sacredness and divinity of the nous.

  • @psychonaut689
    @psychonaut6894 ай бұрын

    The "identity of identity and non-identity" as my philosophy professor used to put it. All this stuff is very Hegelian and complex enough to do justice to the way we acquire knowledge. It's taken me a while to free myself from the logicists; knowledge is an emergent property. Good stuff Dr McGilchrist.

  • @AnAlgernon
    @AnAlgernon5 ай бұрын

    The loss of nuance, the reduction of everything to the symbolic, and the rigidity of "the rules", simplistic models... Perhaps we can find a way to manifest ourselves in our right minds while not losing the left. Thank you Dr. McGilchrist for trying to help. 🙏

  • @tanakaren1822

    @tanakaren1822

    4 ай бұрын

    He recommends practicing Mindfulness & Meditation to bring about brain cohesion.

  • @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    4 ай бұрын

    our left brain dominance is creating accelerating "biological annihilation" - just googlescholar that phrase. thanks

  • @ek6321
    @ek63215 ай бұрын

    A fantastic talk, Dr. McGilchrist. Thank you. The consequences of living in the upside down left hemisphere world are all too obvious: alienation, widespread anxiety, depression, addictions, and deaths of despair.

  • @prinzessor
    @prinzessor5 ай бұрын

    I am a fan since 2 years or so. As a german, I look different to english language and I found "paying attention" could be a play on words: "pay with a tension", what wonderfully matches your findings. Warm regards from Stuttgart !

  • @WisdomWorkshop

    @WisdomWorkshop

    5 ай бұрын

    awesome.

  • @cheri238

    @cheri238

    5 ай бұрын

    Brilliant ❤

  • @shari6063

    @shari6063

    5 ай бұрын

    What a wonderful observation! Thank you for sharing that.

  • @aqua6613

    @aqua6613

    4 ай бұрын

    Schöne Grüsse nach Deutschland ❤ Also love the word play in your name. Prinzessor 😅 I grew up in Nürnberg 😊

  • @matthewstokes1608
    @matthewstokes16085 ай бұрын

    IM’s book “The Matter with Things” is the most profoundly important book of our time.

  • @robertwhiteley-yv1sy

    @robertwhiteley-yv1sy

    5 ай бұрын

    Every paragraph is a bomb.

  • @callmeishmael7452

    @callmeishmael7452

    5 ай бұрын

    It made my brain hurt, I had to pause constantly to reflect and digest what I had read. A massive amount of work. Holding the whole ‘composition’ together through the progression of the work was incredible.

  • @davidrandell2224

    @davidrandell2224

    4 ай бұрын

    “The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy “, Mark McCutcheon.

  • @Theoramma
    @Theoramma4 ай бұрын

    It seems there is a balancing act that has evolved in the nervous system of life. All sides are presented, and all possibilities within the probability of opposites, binaries, and webs of perceived information. Awareness, the more I study it, seems to become more and more important than all other thoughts or processes. It's at the base of the experience of life. You can not know without awareness. You can not make any discernment without awareness. I have a feeling that a true "theory of everything" lies in the understanding of awareness itself.

  • @goansunborn
    @goansunborn2 ай бұрын

    Another gem... I think about the topics on this discussion daily and i see this all around me after reading your work. Maybe because this is how i am attending to the world these days, but i think not. This feeling was there long before i read your work Iain and as many have said you have merely put words to it. But what to do. I see many just watching this as you describe with some kind of optimism but these days there are many times when i feel like i'm living in a mad house. I often think about leaving the bureaucracy of the west for a 'simpler' life somewhere else where i don't have to try to undo the constant gaslighting of the modern world.

  • @Chaotic.Harmony
    @Chaotic.Harmony4 ай бұрын

    Did anyone else notice the Carmen Vortex Feet is almost identical to Tesla's Air Valve patent? Amazing perspectives and illumination thank you for your time.

  • @soscruffy
    @soscruffy4 ай бұрын

    Profound and uplifting. I'm deeply grateful that this wisdom does not turn its back on, or impose an artificial limitation, with regards to the political dimension

  • @cheri238
    @cheri2385 ай бұрын

    Dr. Iian McGilchrist, I thank you so much. 🙏❤️🌍🌿🕊🎶🎵 Prince Wen Hu's cook Was cutting of an ox. Out went a hand, Down went a shoulder, He planted a foot, He pressed a knee, The ox fell apart With a whisper, The bright cleaver murmured Like a gentle wind. Rythem! Timing! Like a sacred dance, Like "The Mulberry Grove," Like ancient harmonies! "Good work!" the Prince exclaimed, "Your method is faultless!" "Method?" said the cook Laying aside his cleaver, "What I follow is Tao Beyond all methods! "When I first began To cut up oxen I would see before me The whole ox All in one mass. After three years I no longer saw this mass, I saw the distinctions. "But now I see nothing With the eye. My whole being Apprendends. My senses are idle. The spirit Free to work without plan Follows its own instinct Guided my natural line, By the secret opening, the hidden place, My cleaver finds its own way. I cut through no joint, chop no bone. "There are species in the joints; The blade is thin and keen: When this thinness Finds that space There is all the room you need! It goes like a breeze! Hence I have this cleaver nineteen years As if it newly sharpened! "True, there are sometimes Tough joints. I feel them coming, I slow down, I watch closely, Hold back, barely move the blade, And whump! the part falls away Landing on the clod of the earth. "Then I withdrew the blade, I stand still And let the joy of the work Sink in. I clean the blade And put it away." Prince Wen Hui said, "This is it! My cook has shown me How I ought to live My own life!" Chuang Tze, Third centuary China

  • @anthonyscrivner65

    @anthonyscrivner65

    4 ай бұрын

    Very nice

  • @leonstenutz6003
    @leonstenutz60035 ай бұрын

    Interesting convergence: Reality + CERN + McGilchrist. Deeply related to the heart of my current work ...

  • @oliverjamito9902

    @oliverjamito9902

    5 ай бұрын

    Indeed. Thy shared I AM came with conversations just for thee! Some will say Who are you? Who LOVE with patience, mercy, and grace! It's a privilege indeed! Judgment and Justice is Thy THRONE! Why say ye say? Remember Remembering ye all once born as a little Child. Likewise...where else increase belongs nor to be glorified belongs? From ABOVE the AM. Thy little child "i" alone WILL Accept! What is conversations without another? Nor what is a Covenant without to share with another? Yes, Holy FEET touched the Curse dry grounds murdered! To be ACCUSED, DEATH, AND HADES SEPARATION FROM CONVERSATIONS! A CHILD BORN IN THIS WORLD. THY LITTLE CHILD "i". The "i" sitting with the AM. Complete. Since in the beginning my AM. Thy OMEGA brought BACK TO LIFE! How and why? Remove the entanglements strong holds.

  • @mindsindialogue
    @mindsindialogue5 ай бұрын

    Breathtaking.. I was left with awe. How scary the world around has become.

  • @cwfilli
    @cwfilli5 ай бұрын

    Thank you, Iain. Your work is truly unique, inspiring and up-lifting. Either/or AND Both/and 😀

  • @gratefulkm
    @gratefulkm4 ай бұрын

    Well done that Man, Iain deserves to be on everyone's lips for his work Once he works out the Stira Terminials and its "going all around the houses" he will understand almost everything that matters "you cant step into the same puddle twice" means "everything changes" Everything is a vibration, buts its never the same vibration forever its always changing frequency which means your life experience is always flowing and changing at the same time there must be 3 points of data

  • @WisdomWorkshop
    @WisdomWorkshop5 ай бұрын

    This work is so important and fascinating. Curious how this applies to how you would re-think education, especially for mid-career adults

  • @katejudson8907
    @katejudson89074 ай бұрын

    Yes, please do that second part. Looking forward to that 👍

  • @DreamingOfABetterDay
    @DreamingOfABetterDay5 ай бұрын

    Thank you for posting more videos. I really enjoy the. ❤

  • @lindacarroll5018
    @lindacarroll50184 ай бұрын

    Thank you Dr. Iain McGilchrist.

  • @janet6962
    @janet69623 күн бұрын

    You are so interesting and I love to watch you, it makes me laugh when you do thing like accidently change the screen! You are so passionate about what you are talking about that you accidently press the button to change the screen! How wonderful!

  • @frankwhite1816
    @frankwhite18165 ай бұрын

    Another solid gold hit, Brother Iain. Loved this! Learned a lot, as I always do from your work. Attention is critical. How you attend changes the world you live in. The more views you can hold of a particular element the closer you are to understanding that elements' complete truth. The mountain example was epic. A mountain is much more than just a mountain. :-) Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for this. ENCORE! ENCORE!!

  • @reiniergamboa
    @reiniergamboa5 ай бұрын

    extremely insightful! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge good sir.

  • @CGMaat
    @CGMaat5 ай бұрын

    Great teacher -thank you -so appreciate your beautiful mind on the matters ….i especially love the coincidence of oposites …

  • @davidmiles-hanschell
    @davidmiles-hanschell4 ай бұрын

    Brilliant lecture and to me a most insightful and useful exposition of academic learning.

  • @SP-ny1fk
    @SP-ny1fk2 ай бұрын

    What a time to be alive!

  • @marvgustafpardis5991
    @marvgustafpardis59914 ай бұрын

    Innovative and Mind Blowing Research!

  • @dalibofurnell
    @dalibofurnell5 ай бұрын

    Excellent. Thank you.

  • @dabrupro
    @dabrupro5 ай бұрын

    @05:55 -- 0:700 This setup with Q & A is an apt description of what assuming human-hood en-tails. Brilliant.

  • @yosivin1
    @yosivin15 ай бұрын

    THANK YOU.

  • @amarx6248
    @amarx62484 ай бұрын

    Wonderful, much appreciated.

  • @biruk8617
    @biruk86173 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing.

  • @daviddean707
    @daviddean7074 ай бұрын

    Nice to hear such a talk even when nested in our own culture

  • @woodpigeon7776
    @woodpigeon77763 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @dailydoseofnews4828
    @dailydoseofnews48284 ай бұрын

    This is partly the reason for Odin having 1 eye. It is said he gave his eye for wisdom. Understanding of human brain functions even back then 👍

  • @GregtheGrey6969

    @GregtheGrey6969

    4 ай бұрын

    He gave up one eye...a eye..."a.i" For wisdom.

  • @KneeSlice1775

    @KneeSlice1775

    2 ай бұрын

    @@GregtheGrey6969Schizo type thinking

  • @narminbayramova600
    @narminbayramova6004 ай бұрын

    this was an amazing lecture thank u

  • @aqua6613
    @aqua66134 ай бұрын

    Randomly clicked on this video and then he starts talking about "two souls" and I'm like...yeah...my twinflame journey 😅 and the two shall become one flesh...im sure thats not whats meant here or maybe it is just implied specifically for my entertainment. How lovely 😊

  • @GrimrDirge
    @GrimrDirge5 ай бұрын

    One of the great tragedies of life is that despite all of his vast knowledge, Dr. McGilchrist has never encountered the great poet of our age, Maynard James Keenan. Spiral out Iain; keep going.

  • @breayannawhiteoak9405

    @breayannawhiteoak9405

    5 ай бұрын

    He did get to the spiral , showing many pix of it and elaborating on it. Love Maynard too

  • @leahelliott3585

    @leahelliott3585

    5 ай бұрын

    Yes!... great poetry, beautiful singer and brilliant mind... so greatful for the medicine Maynard spreads. Got to see Tool recently at the Boston Garden back in mid November, was in thr 10th row, so close I could see their facial expressions. My gawd was it one of the most amazing, not only concerts, but one of the most amazing experiences of my life. For sure.!!!

  • @rubyboobieee
    @rubyboobieee4 ай бұрын

    Absolute genius🙌🏼

  • @nancina49
    @nancina49Ай бұрын

    Marvelous!

  • @dundeedolphin
    @dundeedolphin4 ай бұрын

    Mindblowing. I have long believed in the asymmetry of symmetry etc. Great to hear it more succinctly captured.

  • @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    4 ай бұрын

    it's all asymmetry as Roger Penrose points out - the origin of the universe is asymmetric time that has no size as protoconsciousness nonlocality noncommutativity

  • @janet6962
    @janet69623 күн бұрын

    The left and the right halves of the brain are asymmetrical. I learned that from you. In mind matters, I'm just starting the section called "Hemispheric Differences in Pathologies of Judgment" p. 207. I have a left tbi and have noticed that you haven't said much about left side injuries and how they affect personality. I wonder if what you explain that is missing when the right half is injured may be strengthened in me? You just talked about anger and how much we are using our left sides today and the consequences. But I am very, very optimistic, I'm always smiling and try to bring out the best in everyone, barely any anger at all, only when I jump to conclusions when people are talking to me about specifics and I am very ridged. So I wonder, is it my right side taking over and have I lost much of my anger? It seem pretty impossible for me to sum things up, tidy my thoughts or start from scratch, but give me a day, week, month or year, and I can figure things out. Is it the gathering of information that is easy for me and the conclusions take longer due to lack of the left side? Am I making any sense to you? LOL, remember, I have a brain injury!

  • @bfuiltugomaith
    @bfuiltugomaith5 ай бұрын

    Truly inspiring I have the master and his emissary. Question have you read or looked at william russell the American scientist philosopher … you definitely expand my brain…im a 77 yr old retired police man a garda Siochana from Wexford in Ireland .. my local library has a copy of. The “ matter with things “ but unfortunately it’s part 11 I’m waiting for them 😊to get part 1/…..

  • @needagoodnightofsleep4960
    @needagoodnightofsleep496019 күн бұрын

    Very valuable

  • @matthewstokes1608
    @matthewstokes16085 ай бұрын

    Spot on, unsurprisingly. Thank you for this synopsis on the nightmare we see unfolding all around us in this contemporary slide into barbarism.

  • @monicaarcher7107

    @monicaarcher7107

    4 ай бұрын

    Yes, it is frightening. I agree with how you describe the world right now. The world of my 50s and 60s childhood seems a universe away.

  • @davidmiles-hanschell

    @davidmiles-hanschell

    4 ай бұрын

    YES! Absolutely! Same here; He articulates succinctly what we know to be true and where we are all heading into the abyss .GAZA being the latest instalment.

  • @natashapope3785

    @natashapope3785

    3 ай бұрын

    Never left, barbarism that is. Time to pay ' attention'.

  • @natashapope3785

    @natashapope3785

    3 ай бұрын

    Doctors hate metaphors. Catch up. Fed up.

  • @eniggma9353
    @eniggma93534 ай бұрын

    What a wonderful lecture. Here and onwards, I proclaim that the knowledge and wisdom contained in this scripture shall be mandatory to all the politicians of my land. That is, once i become the president. Greetings from Poland.

  • @vermeerasia

    @vermeerasia

    3 ай бұрын

    Good idea, making it mandatory. Once you're president you can then create a large bureaucracy to manage it and a police force to enforce it.

  • @GhislaineYoung-vn4so
    @GhislaineYoung-vn4so5 ай бұрын

    Profound , insightful, infused with meaning. Beautifully expressed. Thank you

  • @betauser6233
    @betauser62334 ай бұрын

    48:23 the noise creates uniqueness. Truly is remarkable how natures most beautiful things in life are off course just a hair. ❤

  • @iggycrow
    @iggycrow4 ай бұрын

    Salute!*

  • @theobservereffectexplained1102
    @theobservereffectexplained11025 ай бұрын

    Wow thank you ❤ human understanding humanity 🎉 it was believed to be impossible to understand the “self “ in concert term. But in flow and respectfully being mindful , it’s possible to embrace the nature of humanity by crossing the CC bridge the sacred. Misunderstood and underestimated Right Hemisphere cultures might suffer in finding value in modern interpretations of good and bad. Thank you for articulating what I observed and know from experience. Thank you. 🎉 ? Is winking LH grasping or focused attention!!

  • @DreamingOfABetterDay
    @DreamingOfABetterDay5 ай бұрын

    I like "Everything Flows" 41:40 and how you explain the difference between change and flow. You can have form changes in experience but still be in the same experience. It makes it very difficult to get out of denial cause it is hard to recognize you haven't really learned from your experience because you think you have moved into something new, when in truth you are still reliving your past experience, just in a different form. There is more to this, but it gets convoluted a bit. But hopefully it makes since.

  • @georgewatts6221

    @georgewatts6221

    4 ай бұрын

    It does make since. Hey. W/M/34/IN (like in aol chat lol) Can you share some of the stuff you like with me? I'll look it all up. I need something new and you seem to be very interested in the same things that I am= philosophy, science, religion, humanity, love, so on... Thanks in advance. I see you like music. Ani Difranco has a live album called "living in clip" you might listen to from beginning to end. Her song Grey is a personal favorite of my mother. Take care. Keep your chin up.

  • @DreamingOfABetterDay

    @DreamingOfABetterDay

    4 ай бұрын

    @georgewatts6221 Yes, I know Ani DiFranco's music pretty well. Gray is one of my favorites out of so many of my favorites of hers. She is amazing. I really only read one book and don't really recommend it to often. It can make a person crazy and the kind of crazy it is hard to come back from so I feel a great responsibility in it.

  • @DreamingOfABetterDay

    @DreamingOfABetterDay

    4 ай бұрын

    @@georgewatts6221 I have no idea what W/M/34/IM means? Sorry. We'll, I googled it. I guess it was an old aol chat room?

  • @georgewatts6221

    @georgewatts6221

    4 ай бұрын

    @@DreamingOfABetterDay I can handle it. My life has ultimately become a conscious vehicle in a training course of worst case scenarios manifested from within. I got this.

  • @georgewatts6221

    @georgewatts6221

    4 ай бұрын

    @@DreamingOfABetterDay white male 34 years of age Indiana usa. I assumed you were old enough to know.

  • @AbshirFuaad-fq2bd
    @AbshirFuaad-fq2bd4 ай бұрын

    Hey Iain, I love your work and thank you it showed me what I was missing so many years. I couldn't work with this left brain material pursuit world. I was useless in the left brain education system and job system. I want tell you something that you can reference 100% about your study the 2 hemispheres. And that is our book "The Quran" which was revealed 14 centuries ago. Please reply to me and thank you again.

  • @VenusLover17
    @VenusLover175 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤

  • @carolspencer6915
    @carolspencer69155 ай бұрын

    💜

  • @bb2021
    @bb202118 күн бұрын

    A Japanese friend once told me that what is considered to be a beautiful face in Japan is largely physically symmetrical, but with asymmetrical beauty spots.

  • @natashapope3785
    @natashapope37853 ай бұрын

    Information downloads are bestowed.

  • @glaight6362
    @glaight63627 күн бұрын

    Are you looking for the true nature of reality in the right place? Science only has the mind to work with through intellect. But intellect alone will not reveal reality because that is arising only from the conditioned mind. The true nature of reality can only be realised through wisdom which transcends the conditioned mind and becomes the witness to it.

  • @margueritespringer3687
    @margueritespringer36875 ай бұрын

    I enjoy Iains laugh😊

  • @vinm300
    @vinm3002 ай бұрын

    Reality "a betweenness", as in electrical charge - the ensemble of positive negative and the transition across Time : is also considered as relational at the fundamental (Planck scale) level There can be no time without a relationship between objects (It is a similar theme)

  • @stewiepid4385
    @stewiepid43854 ай бұрын

    @27:25 Now, had this been a Metal Concert, FOH would have had that mic hooked up to a distortion pedal and the volume knob set to 11. The Mosh-Pit? Epic!

  • @CGMaat
    @CGMaat5 ай бұрын

    We are like a nucleus with a lot of empty space …..l and a puny intense density point we ponder with - with all these wild electrons going around us at speed of light. How can we ever grasp anything is a real miracle . Wow - our own “ LET THERE BE” we have cover the earth with sky towers and visited the moon and have a space station we hang out over the blue arc….and inventive all kinds of stories about the mystery of FIRST THINGS -visible or invisible .

  • @ChannelMath
    @ChannelMath5 ай бұрын

    It mostly sounded like a bunch of creative but mushy word play around some great but standard ideas. But it was inspiring and that is perhaps the greatest value of philosophy for us common people!

  • @tanakaren1822

    @tanakaren1822

    4 ай бұрын

    L brainer huh!

  • @KneeSlice1775

    @KneeSlice1775

    2 ай бұрын

    @@tanakaren1822Ad hominem

  • @Kyus2001
    @Kyus20014 ай бұрын

    42:37 Reminds me of Marko Rodin Vortex Mathematics and interacting with Reality. 45:07 biosignature from biogeometry.

  • @janet6962
    @janet69623 күн бұрын

    Is there anything we can do about where we are now? On an individual basis I can but can I bring that out in others to make a difference?

  • @callmeishmael7452
    @callmeishmael74525 ай бұрын

    Free gold.

  • @user-iq5ho9xz6g
    @user-iq5ho9xz6g3 ай бұрын

    I'd love to visit a science museum that is centered around devices. It wouldn't be inspiring to kids or whatever common tropes that glorify individuals that become household names. It would border on patents and position the historical context on the basis of geography. Guests would walk away contemplating use cases, top down and bottom up control mechanisms. Also the underwhelming reasons why a certain invention emerged at a particular time. Resource availability and next best achievement under current constraints

  • @FoundingStockNZ
    @FoundingStockNZ3 ай бұрын

    Strange comment about trump, not coming to his defence but for such a learned man I thought you understood the game and how it's played 👌

  • @Elements5025
    @Elements5025Ай бұрын

    The vortex or whirlpool has a more mystical meaning in the ancient theology of Hermes, Orpheus & Pythagoras: it has the same meaning as the CLOUD or divine Glory of christianity: it is through sacred whorls or whirlpools that all things including the corporeal world - come into being. Great points.

  • @ladeda3658
    @ladeda36584 ай бұрын

    Im hearing the common thread between spiritual (not religious, rules of) thought and intellectual/scientific thought. (Metaphysical and physical?) And the necessity of both to form the whole. Perhaps our universities will come around to allowing for scientific research to reach beyond the accepted norms to find what we dont know yet. As science should.

  • @logancade342
    @logancade3424 ай бұрын

    "Nothing is itself without its context."

  • @user-bo9ci9tk6y
    @user-bo9ci9tk6y4 ай бұрын

    Dear Earthlainling Mc Gil-Christ; Your work in the theo sofical is quite extra odinary

  • @mcorbin9474
    @mcorbin94744 ай бұрын

    Never let someone else make up your mind for you.

  • @gerryleb8575
    @gerryleb85754 ай бұрын

    I suggest that one give attention to the Anaximander fragment, one of the earliest remnants of Greek philosophy. Greek philosophy started out exploring this process, until Socrates and Plato came along and created a static philosophy.

  • @rustyneedles643

    @rustyneedles643

    2 ай бұрын

    Socrates and plato are about the only ancient philosophers who did not create a static philosophy

  • @jamescastro2037
    @jamescastro20375 ай бұрын

    The difference between the perspectives of the left and right brain were described in the TV show Seinfeld. When Jerry was dating a woman and when he seen her again he wasn't attracted to her. He blamed it on the lighting. His perspective changed because he viewed her with one side of the brain on separate occasions. She was logically attractive, then she was reasonably attractive or vice versa.

  • @aminam9201
    @aminam92015 ай бұрын

    The right hemisphere of the brain represents personal identity and the left hemisphere of the brain represents consciousness type one of the first type (what generates both personal identity and consciousness type one is the self-concept). Personal identity is a kind of simulation of the self-concept generated by the concept of the self itself. But what happens in both hemispheres of the brain is a process and not absolute. all that was written many years ago in details, they have stolen and polluted human thoughts badly and worked on erasing human traces too.

  • @anibrown5374
    @anibrown53745 ай бұрын

    Could the limit in this case mean the crystalisation?

  • @ALavin-en1kr
    @ALavin-en1kr5 ай бұрын

    Brilliant. So true, should be required viewing in all centers of higher education. I would add that human intelligence and evolution owes its place to the Precession of the Equinoxes. The downward arc to a Dark Age and the upward arc to a Golden Age which repeats at progressively higher levels until all substance (consciousness) is redeemed and brought to self-knowing. Fortunately, in spite of how bad things appear, we are at the beginning of the upward arc, the Dark Age is in the past. Christianity was born in the Pisces/Virgo era, Christianity symbolized by the Fish and the Virgin. The next age which Christ mentioned when he said to look for a man with a pitcher is Aquarius/Leo; the Water bearer and the Lion which lies ahead, a millennia or so away.

  • @NikoHL
    @NikoHL4 ай бұрын

    Much of these thoughts are very similar to Buddhist principles. Worth checking out the lectures of Thich Naht Hahn Zen Buddhist master, on YT.

  • @marxxthespot
    @marxxthespot3 ай бұрын

    🌞🤝🌞

  • @Rene-uz3eb
    @Rene-uz3eb4 ай бұрын

    I suppose one interesting question is which half is in charge of the other half, since they are so different, it's likely one has the upper hand in the 'self'. From what he says with localization of anger, control, maybe even optimism but that's a strange one, being localized left, it seems the left dominating the right would be narcissism? You could even speculate that anger draws the self into the left hemisphere. Other than that I can speculate as to the type of gear on each side

  • @ketherwhale6126
    @ketherwhale61264 ай бұрын

    There’s a recording of my son wearing a T shirt we NEVER owned. Not in this timeline. Nor was it a popular shirt during any time for others. I’m not in drugs, but I do believe in parallel realities and that were in a merge to purify all timelines. I’ve seen for myself that firsthand after a kundalini awakening. This whole world is a concoction of mind. At least, our world is man made. All through speech and language which form concepts.

  • @meliacogan1586
    @meliacogan15864 ай бұрын

    The tension you mention could be explained by the Great Attractor that is pulling us and time

  • @Paul_Marek
    @Paul_Marek5 ай бұрын

    This was fascinating, thank you. I'd love to know if you think (Dr.) that AI will help us mature (for lack of a better word) spiritually as a means of better informing positive systemic and personal change.

  • @philipm3173

    @philipm3173

    5 ай бұрын

    The big Other does not exist.

  • @Paul_Marek

    @Paul_Marek

    5 ай бұрын

    @@philipm3173phewf. Thankfully someone with omniscience to assure humanity of the state of their existence. ;)

  • @luciadegroseille-noire8073

    @luciadegroseille-noire8073

    4 ай бұрын

    I would suggest that in order to make use of A.I. we must presume its competence, or give it some sort of academic or other competence, thus making of it, especially given the length of its sources which precludes frequent criticism of its methods, an oracle. Having done this we might find ourselves undertaking, at its behest, some nihillistic social reordering simlilar but more seemngly rational than the assault we currently defend against. We would thus allow, even more than we currently do, the disuetude of our own cognitive functions, with predictable consequences.

  • @Izanur3
    @Izanur34 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this insightful and thought-provoking lecture, however, the question here is obvious. How do you know that you’re not leaning a little too much on the left side of your brain with your insistence on finding patterns of asymmetry of symmetry with asymmetry? Like in the Escher drawing you showed…

  • @xXNEF132Xx
    @xXNEF132Xx4 ай бұрын

    20:50. I have this, I thought It would be a problem when I started to drive a car but it only happens when I'm not driving a car. come to think of it I have been eating mushrooms and I don't really remember happening for a while. I'm no longer worried about it.

  • @StudioChimps
    @StudioChimps3 ай бұрын

    Very interesting 👍 Makes me laugh that if AI gets truly conscious, that it would think like us, no! It would experience the world / cosmos in a way we could never imagine.

  • @thewaythingsare8158
    @thewaythingsare81584 ай бұрын

    I'm left handed, I wonder if it's the other way around for me? I would love to see you in discussion with Joscha Bach

  • @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    4 ай бұрын

    most left-handed people are still left brain dominant. Music training on an instrument from a young age - before age 9 - is proven to significantly increase the corpus callosum that integrates the right and left brain. Frequency of music is right brain dominant.

  • @thewaythingsare8158

    @thewaythingsare8158

    4 ай бұрын

    @@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 interesting thank you

  • @bfuiltugomaith
    @bfuiltugomaith5 ай бұрын

    The Law which I referred to before …the primary law. All is in the All and the All is in all ( the absolute)

  • @AaaBbb-lm7qw
    @AaaBbb-lm7qw4 ай бұрын

    This was a pretty good talk, i kinda wanted him to say something about dmt xD

  • @S.G.Wallner
    @S.G.Wallner5 ай бұрын

    I think of "between-ness" as tension.

  • @jonjenkins
    @jonjenkins4 ай бұрын

    I posit we are both animals ( physical) & angels ( metaphysical)

  • @azulblue3802
    @azulblue38025 ай бұрын

    We are actually living in a left hemisphere wold rigth now, actually

  • @DouglasHPlumb
    @DouglasHPlumb5 ай бұрын

    Can anyone tell me where Kant suggests we are of two minds?

  • @thebeesnuts777

    @thebeesnuts777

    4 ай бұрын

    In the interpretation of Kant's transcendental idealism, a textual stalemate between two camps has evolved: two-world interpretations regard things in themselves and appearances as two numerically distinct entities, whereas two-aspect interpretations take this distinction as one between two aspects of the same thing.

  • @DouglasHPlumb

    @DouglasHPlumb

    4 ай бұрын

    @@thebeesnuts777 Where did you get this? I would say that the noumenal world is unknowable just from contradictions in pure math (see Gabriel's horn) and the noumenal world is not part of our consciousness. Kant said this limitation created space for faith. Is this what you mean .... faith vs reason? I do not recall him saying this, I've read almost all of his works.