subject/object, matter/consciousness

Attention as a Moral Act
In McGilchrist’s view, attention is never neutral—it is a moral act. To attend to something is to assign value to it, to decide that this is worthy of awareness while everything else fades. The quality of our attention determines the kind of world that appears before us: a world of objects to be used, or of presences to be

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Dr. Iain McGilchrist proposes not a dualistic separation but a reciprocal, co-creative relationship between matter and consciousness. In the section around 1:06:17–1:10:04, he outlines several key points:

• Matter arises from consciousness rather than opposing it. Consciousness is the fundamental “stuff” of the cosmos; matter is one of its phases or

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