I don't know if you did this on purpose, but Dr. Barrett embodies (pun intended, if you're familiar with Iain's work) the kind of one-sided analytic, linear mind set that Dr. McGilchrist has so eloquently described over the past 30 years. Her near incomprehension of what his research is about is almost a caricature of the kind of thinking he describes as endemic in the modern world.
On the other hand, Dr. Woollacott, as an initially physicalist neuroscientist whose mind began to open to "more things on heaven and earth that are dreamed of" in Dr. Barrett's rather barren philosophic world, is a wonderful embodiment (no pun intended) of the kind of integrative thinking that Dr. McGilchirst identifies as needed for the very survival of humanity.
I don't know if you did this on purpose, but Dr. Barrett embodies (pun intended, if you're familiar with Iain's work) the kind of one-sided analytic, linear mind set that Dr. McGilchrist has so eloquently described over the past 30 years. Her near incomprehension of what his research is about is almost a caricature of the kind of thinking he describes as endemic in the modern world.
On the other hand, Dr. Woollacott, as an initially physicalist neuroscientist whose mind began to open to "more things on heaven and earth that are dreamed of" in Dr. Barrett's rather barren philosophic world, is a wonderful embodiment (no pun intended) of the kind of integrative thinking that Dr. McGilchirst identifies as needed for the very survival of humanity.
Great combination of videos!!