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The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
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An increasingly mechanistic, fragmented, decontextualised world, marked by unwarranted optimism mixed with paranoia and a feeling of emptiness, has come about, reflecting, I believe, the unopposed action of a dysfunctional left hemisphere.
Iain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary
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
One common observation is that psychedelics destabilize longrange cortical communication patterns and reduce activity in the posterior cingulate cortex and precuneus in the posterior regions of the neocortex. This is the compatible with our knowledge of the brains of people trained in mindfulness. It appears that the less these midline structures
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Notre personnalité est en proie à une guerre civile, ainsi que Platon l’affirme, ou comme un navire sans capitaine où chaque membre d’équipage tire dans une direction opposée53. Cette conception de la psyché comme constituée d’instances rivales mues par des pulsions opposées n’est pas très compatible avec les neurosciences. D’ailleurs, David
... See moreJules Evans • La philo, c'est la vie ! (Poche) (French Edition)
Much of our capacity to ‘use’ the world depends, not on an attempt to open ourselves as much as possible to apprehending whatever it is that exists apart from ourselves, but instead on apprehending whatever I have brought into being for myself, my representation of it. This is the remit of the left hemisphere, and would appear to require a
... See moreIain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
I’ve come to call this set of circuits—from mirror neurons to subcortical regions, back up to the middle prefrontal areas—the “resonance circuits.” This is the pathway that connects
Daniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
Iain McGilchrist Quotes (Author of The Master and His Emissary)
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