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436. What Your Left Brain Won’t Tell Your Right Brain | Dr. Iain McGilchrist

2024/4/1
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Jordan Peterson 认为左右脑半球特化与神话中路西法式智慧的概念存在关联，并探讨了注意力作为一种价值判断过程与道德之间的关系。他认为，我们对世界的感知取决于我们的目标、注意力和价值观，世界以符合我们目标的方式呈现自身。 Iain McGilchrist 则从神经科学角度深入探讨了左右脑半球特化的机制，以及大脑胼胝体在协调左右脑功能中的作用。他认为，大脑并非简单的二元对立，而是区分与连接、独立与统一的结合。他指出，左脑更擅长获取、简化和理解信息，而右脑则负责整合信息，感知整体，并对经验保持开放性。他认为，过多的连接并非总是更好，信息过载会导致信号被噪声淹没。他批评了现代社会对直觉的忽视，以及左脑过度简化和算法化思维方式的弊端，认为这会导致人们忽视事实，并陷入妄想。他认为，右脑更关注经验的真实性，而左脑更关注内部一致性。他认为，直觉比基于直觉的推理更丰富，并且过度依赖理性可能会导致错误的结论。 Iain McGilchrist 详细阐述了其著作《The Matter With Things》的核心观点，即如何判断哪些事物更接近真理。他认为，右脑比左脑更能准确地反映现实，左脑容易产生情绪化反应和错误判断。他探讨了人们寻找真理的途径，包括科学、理性、直觉和想象力，并指出它们各自的局限性。他认为，对立统一的原则在各种文化中都存在，追求某一极端最终会导致其反面。他认为，理想状态并非将所有事物简化为单一线性路径，而是多种观点的平衡统一。他强调了宇宙的演化过程是内隐的逐渐显现，多样化发展但不威胁整体的完整性。他认为，万事万物都在流动变化中，机械论的观点是错误的。他认为，生命的意义并非仅仅在于生存，还在于对宇宙之美、善和真的回应。他认为，意识遍布整个宇宙，物质是意识的一种具体表现形式。他认为，注意力是一种道德行为，因为它塑造了我们的世界观和自我。他认为，存在不同类型的注意力，有些更慷慨，有些更具有掠夺性。他认为，我们所关注的方式决定了我们所发现的东西，并影响我们未来的行为。他认为，同一事物可以有多种真实的解读，这取决于人们关注的角度。他认为，只关注事物的功利性会使我们的灵魂变得贫乏。他认为，左脑通过封闭来寻找真理，右脑通过开放来寻找真理。他认为，现代社会中，人们过于关注物质财富，忽视了精神世界、真挚的情感和与自然的联系。

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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down in-person with psychiatrist, researcher, and philosopher Dr. Iain McGilchrist. They discuss right brain/left brain hemispheric specialization, the basis of delusion, “unknowing” as a necessary step toward wisdom, consciousness and the divine ground of being, and the imposition of mediocrity in the modern West.

 

Dr. Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He has been a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature, philosophy, medicine and psychiatry. He is the author of a number of books, but is best-known for The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale 2009). In November 2021 his two-volume work The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World was published by Perspectiva Press.

 

 

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2024 tour details can be found here https://jordanbpeterson.com/events  

 

Peterson Academy https://petersonacademy.com/  

 

 

For Iain McGilchrist:

 

Website https://channelmcgilchrist.com/

 

On X https://twitter.com/dr_mcgilchrist?lang=en

 

The Matter With Things (Book) https://tinyurl.com/5d3cfns6

 

The Master and His Emissary (Book) https://tinyurl.com/3p4favfe