“It is rather odd to find Dunbar referring to dance as useless: ‘dancing, a phenomenon that probably ranks, along with smiling and laughter’, he writes, ‘as one of the most futile of all human universals’.126 I say it is odd… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“Our talent for division, for seeing the parts, is of staggering importance – second only to our capacity to transcend it, in order to… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body,… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000. — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“When Lear cries, ‘Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?’, we could reply, on one level, yes – a defect… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“Language enables the left hemisphere to represent the world ‘off-line’, a conceptual version, distinct from the world of experience, and shielded from the immediate… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“Every thing that purports to be the truth is, according to Heidegger, inevitably an approximation and true things, things that really are, rather than… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
