Why Evolution Gave You Two Brains - Iain McGilchrist

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Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, writer, and former Oxford literary scholar. McGilchrist came to prominence after the publication of his book The Master and His Emissary, subtitled The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.

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00:00 Why the Brain is Split Into Two Hemispheres
07:14 Evolutionary Need for Brain Separation
16:23 What Both Sides Are Responsible For
21:52 Richard Dawkins and Jordan Peterson
32:25 Is Society Too Left-Brain Dominated?
41:08 A Left-Brain View of Love
45:11 Why Humans Are Not Like Machines
49:35 Could Machines Become Conscious?
58:35 God is Not a Divine Engineer
1:11:23 Is it Possible to Unlock the Right Brain?
1:23:45 Viewing Religion With Your Left Brain
1:32:18 Principles for Being More Right-Brained
1:13:20 Ending

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