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The Divided Brain

How do weexperience the world?

How do we
experience the world?

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How do we experience the world?
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00:00:32
Uploaded
Jun 14, 2025
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documentary
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A film which explores a radical new idea - is there an imbalance between our brain hemispheres that is affecting how we live in our modern society?
How do we make sense of it, measure it, construct it, - The Divided Brain 00:08
How do we make sense of it, measure it, construct it,
A controversial scientist, Iain McGilchrist, - The Divided Brain 00:11
A controversial scientist, Iain McGilchrist,
Iain McGilchrist, he's a psychiatrist and author of "The - The Divided Brain 00:15
Iain McGilchrist, he's a psychiatrist and author of &qu...
Two hemispheres have styles-- - The Divided Brain 00:04
Two hemispheres have styles--
The left hemisphere's goal is to enable us to manipulate things. - The Divided Brain 00:05
The left hemisphere's goal is to enable us to manipulat...
Whereas, the goal of the right hemisphere - The Divided Brain 00:06
Whereas, the goal of the right hemisphere
Two ways of thinking that are both needed, - The Divided Brain 00:08
Two ways of thinking that are both needed,
McGilchrist claims that the left hemisphere of the brain is - The Divided Brain 00:13
McGilchrist claims that the left hemisphere of the brain is
The way of thinking which is reductive, - The Divided Brain 00:06
The way of thinking which is reductive,
We behave like people who had right hemisphere damage. - The Divided Brain 00:05
We behave like people who had right hemisphere damage.
Do we pay a price for being too left hemisphere-centered? - The Divided Brain 00:07
Do we pay a price for being too left hemisphere-centered?
We may pay the ultimate price, - The Divided Brain 00:07
We may pay the ultimate price,
It's enabled us to become wealthy. - The Divided Brain 00:04
It's enabled us to become wealthy.
But it's also meant that we've lost means - The Divided Brain 00:07
But it's also meant that we've lost means
His revolutionary theory has attracted prominent supporters - The Divided Brain 00:08
His revolutionary theory has attracted prominent supporters
I think "The Master and His Emissary" was possibly, - The Divided Brain 00:06
I think "The Master and His Emissary" was possibly...
The idea that there is a distinction between those two - The Divided Brain 00:08
The idea that there is a distinction between those two
And I see it all the time in my own field - The Divided Brain 00:05
And I see it all the time in my own field
I mean, it just explains an incredible number of things - The Divided Brain 00:07
I mean, it just explains an incredible number of things
But scientists think he's a heretic. - The Divided Brain 00:04
But scientists think he's a heretic.