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The Divided Brain and the Search For Meaning – Insights From the Cutting Edge of Neuroscience

Iain McGilchrist in conversation with David Malone

59 mins watch time

Posted August 2020

Psychology, Science

For millennia, humans have speculated about the differences between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. No neuroscientist has been able to explain this unusual aspect of our anatomical evolution, until now. Dr Iain McGilchrist believes he has the answer – and his ideas have profound consequences for how we understand ourselves and the future of human values in our hyper-rationalist age.