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Iain McGilchrist
Iain McGilchrist is psychiatrist and writer, best known for his book 'The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.' A former Consultant Psychiatrist at the Bethlem Royal, his new book 'The Matter With Things' explores the ways to truth and what is true.
Iain McGilchrist is psychiatrist and writer, best known for his book 'The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.' A former Consultant Psychiatrist at the Bethlem Royal, his new book 'The Matter With Things' explores the ways to truth and what is true.
Iain McGilchrist Videos
The Limits of Logic
Should we embrace the irrational?
Imagining the universe
Is creativity an illusion?
Secrets of the Mind
Can science explain consciousness?
On the nature of reality
The limits of materialism
Being Conscious
The science and philosophy of consciousness
Iain McGilchrist Articles
More Videos
A Spider in the Eye
The New Romantics
Catching sight of our self
Is it possible to know ourselves?
In Conversation: Iain McGilchrist and Hilary Lawson
Can we make sense of the cosmos?
On the nature of reality
The limits of materialism
Imagining the universe
Is creativity an illusion?
The world is not made of things
An interview with Iain McGilchrist
The dawn of consciousness
Did consciousness evolve?
More Articles
CRISPR's Brave New World
Science is based in metaphor
Rewriting the code of life
The moral case for eugenics?
The false promise of human gene editing
A new paradigm to understand pain
Euthanasia isn't a slippery slope
Looking at genes through a human lens
The mystery and origins of play
Biology's Uncertainty Principle
The fight for the future of biology
Nature didn't make us human, culture did
From Darwin to Derrida: evolution as interpretation
Too much pleasure causes pain
How science makes politics absurd
Cracking the creation of life
The ocean is the engine of the Earth
The microorganism that shaped humanity
We risk turning life into an illness
The Brave New World of synthetic humans
The post-antibiotic apocalypse is here
The mystery of living things
A new theory of matter may help explain life
The mind-body problem is ruining our health
Suspended Ethics?
Entering the Soul Niche
A New Science of Life
The Persecution of Heretics
Who First into the Ark?
An Enemy of The Open Society