Why Evolution Gave You Two Brains – Iain McGilchrist

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   @CosmicSkeptic

   March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

   Get all sides of every story and be better informed at https://ground.news/AlexOC

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   @ivanbessonov5405

   March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

   I wonder if the relation between left/right visual fields and right/left hemispheres have something to do with the fact that in most cultures we write text from left to right? Or other such things

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   @speedygreenie

   March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

   For a man who doesn’t like psychedelics and has never had a breakthrough experience, he sure does seem to already have many of the perspectives that a breakthrough experience on psychedelics brings you.

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   @Jason_gottx

   March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

   “Do you think Peterson & Dawkins are right and left?”
   Iain: ANSWERS IN RIGHT BRAIN FLUENTLY

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   @naminova

   March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

   I'm not sure how any of these more complex ideas about life and consciousness are actually mutually exclusive with materialism? All of these very real and complex philosophies can be emergent and that doesn't make them any less meaningful or important. The gap is not at the beginning or the top, like a god, it's in between, more like a missing link.

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   @Evropaea

   March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

   Man, Iain McGilchrist is really cranky in this interview.

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   @mosso2901

   March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

   20:30 what i’m hearing is that autistic is just the opposite of artistic.

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   @rosesarelike

   March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

   So the right brain is about the vibes

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   @rbadger420

   March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

   42:21this is a brilliant point and something people need to accept more nowadays

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    @D_A_D_

    March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

    "You can't measure love." Helen Fisher rolls in her grave

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    @Home-ing

    March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

    Why is the survival /evolution of this organism we call the earth/universe so important is the question. People are always questioning 'purpose'. What if our purpose was to keep some other organism alive and well (that's our function while here). Would that be considered a worthy altruistic cause?? Would we be happy being it's sacrifice (with our occasional joys/wins in our existence) with our share of woes and our ultimate deaths.

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    @pvb2048

    March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

    Love. A chemical, evolutionary, survival and reproduction reaction. Its not "magic". Its perfectly explicable. You feel love when your body is telling you to reproduce. You feel love when you have an inherit bias to look after your own family genes, Pure survival.

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    @deepcarnalknowledge

    March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

    0:45:00 i think this is cope. id go into detail but nobody will read it

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    @PHILIPP_ONLINE

    March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

    Imagine Iain talking to Eliezer Yudkowski
    That would be awesome

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    @happyhappy85

    March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

    "a machine can't feel love"

    And what exactly is stopping that from theoretically happening?

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    @happyhappy85

    March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

    "if you think love is an emergent property of more fundamental substance, you're an idiot" – this guy.

    I feel like the bias is coming from him, not the other way around.

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    @markdelepine2772

    March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

    At one point you, Alex, ask if a psychedellic experience could cause a shift to right brain functioning. What that did for me was make me realize that I/we can absolutely experience the world and ourselves differently than we do. Later, I realized just how much is given to us by way of unconscious processing and eventually I realized that I had always regarded reflection as a useful way to understand better and so regarded intuition as something more productive than brainstorming hypotheticals.

    Eventually I realized that I have faith in that and it serves me in the way faith in God serves Christians as it permits them to proceed in faith without the urgency to reach conclusions and formalize what we know. Partly because of psychedelic experiences I came to believe that holding a space for realization was a very good way to live in the world. But it took reading The Matter With Things to disabuse me of the primacy of matter or physicalism. I will never be religious but spiritually I am content.

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    @jonahcravens4407

    March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

    56:11 "there's literally no certainty in the cosmos, we know that" bro created a paradox without even trying 😭

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    @zactelford

    March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

    "The people who are the most dogmatic, and most angry and vehement on the internet, are people for whom it's never occurred to them that the other person is anything other than stupid because they don't believe the way they do."

    Oh, the irony. This guy just spent the last half an hour berating people for being narrow minded and ignorant for not seeing things the way he does.

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    @PLKSSB

    March 23, 2026 at 1:32 pm

    The man completely lost me at the middle of the conversation. When he claims an organism can adapt to a new threat that didn't encounter before, that's exactly the point of evolution. Adaptability to the environment not only in long periods of time with natural selection, but also developing the ability to adapt to short-term threats. And I don't agree the threat is completely new in most cases. Actually, when an organism genome hasn't encountered a threat in long time periods, or never, it becomes very vulnerable to it. There are many examples of almost complete extinction of a society due to encountering bacteria or viruses that where new to its immunological system. There is also the other, very studied in psychology, side of the coin, where we have developed a lot of emotions and biological systems that where used for millions of years to deal with certain natural threats, but now in the lack of those threats in our society, they malfunction and give us a broad variation of mental disorders due to biological misuse of those mechanisms initially developed to protect, such as stress and anxiety.

    There are much more claims this man makes that I find unfounded and blind to our discoveries the last century (genome carrying almost no information? where did he heard that?), but I suppose is time lost to cover every single missed point in a YouTube comment lost in a sea of thousands.

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