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Ian McGilchrist's The Master and his Emissary Dissected pt 1 Science

This is the first of three films on the book. this opening film I’ve called ‘Science’ and it will be followed by a second named ‘Philosophy’ and a third called ‘History and Culture’. Here I’ve sought to summarise the ideas and arguments of this extraordinary, and expansive book in 5 sections. The first, ‘positioning and presenting McGilchrist’, is concerned to locate where he’s coming from, and presents him as a polymath, scientist and philosopher whose span of art and science is reflected in his work and central to his argument. Here I also address, the problems of summarising a highly unusual thinker, using broad, swathes of science, philosophy and cultural history to produce a deep and in many ways challenging book. The second, ‘Why two hemispheres’ - sets out the evolutionary argument for distinct hemispheres; as essential to our survival but which produce different and opposed dispositions to the world they inhabit. The third, ‘Profiling the hemispheres’ extends this idea of hemispheric difference, setting out their different goals personalities, values, instincts, and desires, which crudely might be reduced to a split between power and life. The fourth, ‘Why right is master’ sets out reasons why despite left hemisphere power and right hemisphere silence – it is the ‘right’ empirically, functionally, philosophically and morally, that has claim to be the master hemisphere of the brain. The final section ‘The rise of the left hemisphere and its consequences’ explains how a combination of hemispheric personality, and the rise of the modern world is now undermining the long-established balance between the two hemispheres. Increasingly, it’s a left hemisphere, no longer held in check, and whose disposition is towards power that is shaping our thinking and culture. The result is the rapid production of a lifeless and virtual world.