In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category. — 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 see the whole. These gifts of the left hemisphere have helped us achieve nothing less than civilisation itself, with all that that means. Even if we could abandon them, which of course we can't, we would… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share
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
