What can we do now? Well, there's a

whole lot of things really. We can begin the work of limiting the damage we do to nature and that's, of course, the obvious one and is underway in many very good organisations and human beings in the world today. But I think we also need to reestablish some sense of who we are and what we're doing here. And I think that although we've got all this power and machines

that can quote 'think', they can't think at all, they can process information extremely rapidly. We're not really wise. And one of my answers to when people say, 'what should we do?' is pray. And by that, I don't mean as Heidegger said, 'only God can save us now'. I didn't mean that God will suddenly come down with his divine hand, sort everything out and it'll all be

okay. That's not gonna happen. But what I mean is that if we adopted a different, less arrogant, less you hubristic attitude to the world, if we incorporated some sense of the limitations to what we know and can do. If we have some humility, if we re-kindled in ourselves a sense of awe and wonder before what is still there, in this beautiful world.

And with it, brought some compassion to our relations with other people. Not shouting them down, vilifying them, telling them they're frightful, because they disagree with them, reasonably talking and saying, 'okay, you disagree with me. I'm interested, explain your point of view.' And then there should be a discussion. So we become capable of rescuing the mess that we've got into but what we mustn't do is follow the

strident shrieking voices, whatever they may be saying.

UnHerd • Dr Iain McGilchrist: We Are Living in a Deluded World