’Change your way of seeing’

2025-09-12

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My first guest on The Machine Sessions is Iain McGilchrist. Iain is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is the author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, and more recently the epic The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World.Iain and I discuss the left-right brain distinction and what it means, ask whether the Western world is mentally ill, talk about the importance of the ‘Four Ps’, and look at how we can begin to free ourselves from thinking and seeing like machines.A video version of this chat can be found on my YouTube cha...

My first guest on The Machine Sessions is Iain McGilchrist. Iain is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is the author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, and more recently the epic The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World.

Iain and I discuss the left-right brain distinction and what it means, ask whether the Western world is mentally ill, talk about the importance of the ‘Four Ps’, and look at how we can begin to free ourselves from thinking and seeing like machines.

A video version of this chat can be found on my YouTube channel.

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