How does the brain produce our experience of the world? What role do science, reason, and imagination play in the search for truth – and how much should we trust each of these paths to knowledge? On this week’s show you’ll hear new answers to these ancient questions – and many more. In this podcast, the two men will come together to explore The Matter With Things, McGilchrist’s ground-breaking sequel to The Master and His Emissary and the culmination of a lifetime of thought. It is an ethos shared by the neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist, whose book The Master and His Emissary was that rare thing: a bestselling classic of modern philosophy with genuine relevance to human life. Following on from McGilchrist's 2009 work, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western. In ‘The Matter with Things’, Iain McGilchrist tackles the big questions: Who are we What is the world How can we understand consciousness, matter, space an. Philip Pullman’s novels are a testament to the power of the human imagination and a celebration of our capacity for wonder, proving to millions of readers across the globe that enchantment still has a profound role to play in our age of reason. The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World is a 2021 book of neuroscience, epistemology and metaphysics written by psychiatrist, thinker and former literary scholar 1 Iain McGilchrist. The award-winning novelist and acclaimed neuroscientist join us with a profound new story of what the world is and who we are.
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