Understanding The Matter with Things — Dialogues is a set of 29 videos in which Iain McGilchrist and Àlex Gómez-Marín explore, chapter by chapter, McGilchrist’s latest book The Matter with Things.

Dr Iain McGilchrist and Dr Alex Gomez-Marin
Dr. Iain McGilchrist is a British psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher, and author of several books, notably The Master and His Emissary and The Matter with Things. He is known for his theory about the differences between the brain’s left and right hemispheres and their effects on society, history and culture.

Dr Àlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception in flies, worms, mice, humans and robots. Since 2016 he is the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining high-resolution experiments, computational and theoretical biology, and continental philosophy, his latest research concentrates on real-life cognition and consciousness.

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Chapters

Chapter 1: The Introduction


Running time 1:01:42

Chapter 2: Attention


Running time 59:51

Chapter 3: Perception


Running time 47:22

Chapter 4: Judgment


Running time 1:02:42

Chapter 5: Apprehension

Iain McGilchrist in conversation with Dr. Alex Gómez-Marín, a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist.


Running time 1:00:53

Chapter 6: Emotional & Social Intelligence


Running time 54:23

Chapter 7: Cognitive Intelligence


Running time 49:16

Chapter 8: Creativity


Running time 1:21:22

Chapter 9: Schizophrenia & Autism


Running time 1:12:24

Chapter 10: What is truth?


Running time 1:07:27

Chapter 11: Science’s claims on truth


Running time 53:21

Chapter 12: The science of life


Running time 1:07:47

Chapter 13: Institutional science & truth


Running time 1:15:11

Chapter 14: Reason’s claims on truth


Running time 52:06

Chapter 15: Reason’s progeny


Running time 1:17:43

Chapter 16: Logical paradox


Running time 1:00:08

Chapter 17: Intuition’s claims on truth


Running time 1:01:31

Chapter 18: The untimely demise of intuition


Running time 1:11:45

Chapter 19: Intuition, imagination and unveiling


Running time 1:16:11

Chapter 20: The coincidentia oppositorum


Running time 1:23:07

Chapter 21: The one and the many


Running time 1:00:21

Chapter 22: Time


Running time 1:17:13

Chapter 23: Flow and movement


Running time 1:12:08

Chapter 24: Space and matter


Running time 1:10:35

Chapter 25: Matter and consciousness


Running time 1:59:25

Chapter 26: Value


Running time 1:21:41

Chapter 27: Purpose, life, nature of the cosmos


Running time 1:03:03

Chapter 28: The sense of the sacred


Running time 2:13:12

Epilogue


Running time 54:33

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Channel McGilchrist — a membership platform established by Iain McGilchrist and Mary Attwood, enabling its members to explore, discuss and expand on McGilchrist’s theory of the differences between the left and right hemispheres of the brain and their impact on our perception of and interaction with the world.

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Left Brain & Right Brain: 20 Brain Hemisphere Differences from “The Master and His Emissary” on Sloww.co website

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