Iain McGilchrist and the battle over the left-brain, right-brain theory

The author was an English reader at a Brit Uni, then a philosopher, became a psychiatrist, and engaged in neuroscience research on cerebral lateralization. His breadth of knowledge is breathtaking. I’ve finished reading this book, one chapter alone had 500 references. His latest tome, The Matter of Things, is 1200 pages long with 180 pages of footnotes.

He fearlessly uses cerebral lateralization to develop a synthesis across Western history, philosophy, religion, science, and the dangerous direction of the West. He is a dualist, positing consciousness is not physically instantiated. He laments the decline of modern Christianity and argues the modern Church capitulation to the Western trend is a disaster. He is not a Christian.

You’ll have to be a little barking mad to read The Master and the Emissary and completely bonkas to read The Matter of Things. McGilchrist’s ideas have drawn a huge audience, ranging from theologians to philosophers, physicists, and neuroscientists. If you want to join them be prepared to put in a lot of work because McGilchrist demands a lot from his readers. Too much for me. I read this too quickly but I have so much else to read so that is the end of the matter for me.

For those interested in thinking about the development of Western culture, philosophy, and science from the extraordinary perspective of cerebral lateralization his works are a treasure trove of data and insights.

I can’t speak to the veracity of his arguments but I enjoyed his analysis of modern science and the modern habit of dismissing anything that lacks utilitarian value.

Actually it’s three independents, all of whom look to be relatively secure Democrat votes.

Teals?

Anyone come back from the death that was promised them by volume-up monologue fetishists?

Any and all malicious rumours of my alleged demise (be that in 4 to 34 months, or otherwise) were mildly exaggerated…

The executive ‘government’ in the US is a grotesque freak show and deliberately so. It’s in-your-face demoralization.

Look out, that fuckin’ cat’s back.

ABC reports TaliDan has exceeded his 2018 election win by one seat.
-55 seats in 2018 with 42.86% of the primary vote.
– 56 seats in 2022 with 37% of the primary vote.
In 2018 the LNP scored 82% of Labor’s first preference tally – 92% in 2022 and yet did worse.

The VEC doesn’t know anyone named Gerry Mander.

Only two.
Firstly there was myself.
Then fucking Anger steals my thunder with a Rexurexion of his own.
Attention seeker!
Henceforth to be known as Rex Markle.
Of course, The Great Predictinator has crunched the cogs off the Road Rager 17 speed Cashbox getting it into reverse.

Actually

I’m trans-trans and I identify as Dick Pusey.

No, no, rosie! We must argue such things to the death! 😀

I thought the ugly basketball player that was returned from the Soviets was a tranny.

Am I wrong? Serious question.

Forgot to add, when I saw it walk I was sure it was a bloke. meh.

It’s a tall black Dude pretendin’ to be a Lezzo for the dosh.

I was back in South Africa in September and experienced their rolling blackouts which is called load shedding. Every evening between 6 and 8 there was no electricity. Water, too, was an issue. Left SA in 1994 when this was unthinkable for many. I suppose many believe the same here in Australia.

Water shortages?

“Thirst shedding”?

m0ntysays:
December 9, 2022 at 9:57 pm
Even if Twitter shadowbanned the right more than the left… they are entitled to. They don’t have to be fair. They are a private company and they don’t have to be balanced.

Good to see that you support Musk’s crackdown on leftist lies and the ugly child sex exploitation that were allowed to thrive under the previous management.

Donald J Trump

Trump thanks Elon Musk for powerfully showing the normies how the 2020 election was rigged and calls this a big moment in history.
The world is beginning to see the truth.

“ELON: The Twitter releases are a revelation in that they show, in a very powerful fashion, the FBI and “Justice” illegally colluding, proving conclusively, in one more very powerful way, that the 2020 Presidential Election was Rigged & Stolen. What everyone is REALLY waiting to see, however, is the Twitter information and thought process leading up to the time of the so-called “Election,” and ultimately the “Deplatforming” of the President of the United States. Big moment in history. Thank you!”

The story Dreher links to from the Blood Report is horrific.

That is not Ronald Reagan’s America.

America has become another run of the mill Evil Empire.

Reported by Tucker Carlson. Military (!) and cops bully mother on FaceBook to delete post questioning teaching pansexuality to children aged 12 and under.

https://twitter.com/bloodbrief/status/1600684831125671938

custardsays:
December 10, 2022 at 8:41 am
We now learn John Podesta’s niece was on Twitter Trust and Safety council.

Elon sacked her overnight.

The “old” Twatter seems to have been a collection of leftard maaaaates!

Apparently another of the recent sackees had worked for both the CIA and FBI.

Definitely a Spook, eh, Richard Cranium?

rosie says:
December 10, 2022 at 8:56 am
It reminds me a little of Muslims in Indonesia? demanding blood replacement from a chocolate manufacturer after finding out there was a small amount of pig fat in their product.

So basically you’re gaslighting me now even after I posted the 2022 BMJ article on mRNA vaccine injuries.

Great. Now I’m a superstitious chemistry denier by association.

Thanks Rosie.
I thought it was female until I heard it speak, then I wasn’t sure.

Yep. Some women are actually a bit male-looking. Still women though and often hetero. Same as some men are a bit effete and girly but still men and not gay. No need for sexual stereotypes, which is what the gender-benders get off on, imitating sexual stereotypes in dress and behaviour. The xx and xy is much more subtle than such simple things.

What I love is the ad currently running on Sky (After Dark) for Brass Monkey fridges.
It leaves you in no sort of doubt that the Karen and other ‘ladies’ in the camping scenario (lol) are heads of bearded blokes stuck onto female bodies. The real bloke mate of the real bloke doing the introductions to ‘the girls’ is gob-smacked and then goes along with it. It is such a blatant ridicule of gender-bending while offering a seeming approval of it that soon some freak is going to demand the ad be withdrawn.

Again for the superstitious among “you lot”.

Wow.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9167431/

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Published online 2022 Jun 5. doi: 10.1186/s12985-022-01831-0
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Adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines and measures to prevent them

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Abstract

Recently, The Lancet published a study on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and the waning of immunity with time. The study showed that immune function among vaccinated individuals 8 months after the administration of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was lower than that among the unvaccinated individuals. According to European Medicines Agency recommendations, frequent COVID-19 booster shots could adversely affect the immune response and may not be feasible. The decrease in immunity can be caused by several factors such as N1-methylpseudouridine, the spike protein, lipid nanoparticles, antibody-dependent enhancement, and the original antigenic stimulus. These clinical alterations may explain the association reported between COVID-19 vaccination and shingles. As a safety measure, further booster vaccinations should be discontinued. In addition, the date of vaccination should be recorded in the medical record of patients. Several practical measures to prevent a decrease in immunity have been reported. These include limiting the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including acetaminophen to maintain deep body temperature, appropriate use of antibiotics, smoking cessation, stress control, and limiting the use of lipid emulsions, including propofol, which may cause perioperative immunosuppression. In conclusion, COVID-19 vaccination is a major risk factor for infections in critically ill patients

Nature v nurture. 90% of my family is nature upon years of observation. The crossover in traits is quite amazing. Fortunately the bad traits have so far been eliminated though I do see in myself, 1 or 2 things I don’t like. The nurture part for me came from my Italian Aunt. I learnt observation of the human condition from her. She never complained about whatever was thrown at her in life, just got on with it. My sisters kids are combinations of our and her in-laws family.

You’re not talking about that opinion letter masquerading as a research paper you linked a few days ago?

No. You’re wrong and desperately hand waving, suck it up Princess.

It is a very well referenced letter, not opinion and may be considered a short literature review.

It is a summary of current research and all serious scientific journals run these, so crap like the Wakefield paper can get called out in a timely fashion.

The only reason why it would be invalid is if most to all of the double blind peer reviewed research they cite is fraudulent.

Max Dosage?

Thancho good to see you back from the death camp. Max is the name of the donkey when your master was tilting at windmills. If you’re in need of some more jabs to make sure, you can have mine.

m0nty=fa

Riddle us this.

You are babbling on (now) about Twatter’s right to censor any speech that they want to, but do you have any thoughts on the now exposed reality that (old) Twatter staff were lying all the time about what they were up to? Was this also acceptable to you?

People could act rationally if the government didn’t lie to them and gaslight them and made psychopaths like Albert Bourla accountable.

Yes, it all contributes to the level of suspension of disbelief cultism that some objectors – but not all – display about the mRNA (and AZ DNA) vaxxes (ok, point taken that they aren’t vaxxes in any traditional sense, I get that, and I also get that they were poorly tested and cause problems – in me and my family, as I’ve noted here, and far more than is acceptable for any mass program vs the risks.)

Deciding not to get this vaxx is a valid choice and I support the good people here who make that considered choice as well as those who for whatever reason decide to get jabbed. I am not much into naturopathy, though not averse to a few vitamins taken in hope, but if others are into a herbal belief system, that sometimes may be backed by proper evidence and sometimes not, that too is their choice. However, I don’t support the level of cultism and often spurious claims of utter doom that occur about this vaxx (or anti-vaxxism in general), exemplified by Struth and Figures on this blog.

Yes. Let’s change the subject.
Shall we talk about the buggered power grid getting some more buggery OR the price of petrol?

Hey, the question I posted a couple of days ago about whether wombats are good eating was serious.
I have mentioned earlier that I had bought a great, but very neglected small farm. I have managed to clear a couple of areas. Turned one of the old berry beds into a chook yard.
I have cleared a second berry bed in preparation for a future veg garden. Problem is, I have a resident wombat. Her burrow has a tunnel about 10 metres long. It opens out in my future veg garden. If I collapse or fill in the burrow, she just digs it out again overnight. A pity our Roadworks aren’t that industrious.

I will have to evict her. No point trapping, then moving her, they are used to travelling long distances. Also, the bloody thing is huge!
Shooting is the best option. It just seems a shame to waste so much meat. I quite like game meat. Am looking forward to a lot of rabbit pie as soon as my son turns up with his guns. I still have to get my licence. Am planning on buying a compound bow shortly to use in the meantime. This is why I wanted to know if anyone here has any experience eating wombat. Before anyone starts giving me stick about “poor things, they have rights too you know”, they are in plague proportions here and all the local farmers shoot them on sight. One too many horses, beef cattle with broken legs.

Thanks in advance.

alwaysrightsays:
December 10, 2022 at 9:45 am
Pogria December 10, 2022 at 9:40 am

Shooting them just makes them cross.

A Mongo Wombat!

The Australian Paleo diet – which native animals should we eat?

Contains useful info on wombat as a fat source, and some findings re pre-contact aborignal consumption. Recipes not included but you could try stick on fire till done. 🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
December 10, 2022 at 9:53 am
From the Oz. I’ve posted the whole article.

Janet Albretchsen has got the bit between her teeth on this whole sorry saga.

She’s my favourite OZ columnist by a far stretch.

S/he’s a spook, right?

Hey, I never thought of that?

She is what I believe is known as a bull dyke.
I used to have a couple of customers in that category.

I’ll bet you did.

Shall we talk about the buggered power grid getting some more buggery OR the price of petrol?

The WTI crude oil price has fallen quite a bit, now USD71.58/bbl. That’s down $20 in a month and $50 down from the peak in June.

It’ll be interesting to see if this knocks the top off inflation, since the climbing oil and gas prices initially caused it.

It’ll be interesting to see if this knocks the top off inflation, since the climbing oil and gas prices initially caused it

no it didnt, rampant money printing did

Yeah, it kinda makes sense:
Tall Spooky dude, impersonates Lezzo to
join WNBA, goes to Russia, commits obviously unnecessary crime, gets jailed, swapped for Arms Dealer with likely ties to the Big Guy,
Democracy wins
yay!

Pogriasays:
December 10, 2022 at 9:40 am
Hey, the question I posted a couple of days ago about whether wombats are good eating was serious.
I have mentioned earlier that I had bought a great, but very neglected small farm. I have managed to clear a couple of areas. Turned one of the old berry beds into a chook yard.
I have cleared a second berry bed in preparation for a future veg garden. Problem is, I have a resident wombat. Her burrow has a tunnel about 10 metres long. It opens out in my future veg garden. If I collapse or fill in the burrow, she just digs it out again overnight. A pity our Roadworks aren’t that industrious.

I will have to evict her. No point trapping, then moving her, they are used to travelling long distances. Also, the bloody thing is huge!
Shooting is the best option. It just seems a shame to waste so much meat. I quite like game meat. Am looking forward to a lot of rabbit pie as soon as my son turns up with his guns. I still have to get my licence. Am planning on buying a compound bow shortly to use in the meantime. This is why I wanted to know if anyone here has any experience eating wombat. Before anyone starts giving me stick about “poor things, they have rights too you know”, they are in plague proportions here and all the local farmers shoot them on sight. One too many horses, beef cattle with broken legs.

Thanks in advance.

If you’re talking about shooting them just remember they’re a protected species in NSW and Victoria and you’ll need a permit.

However, having read a old hunting book I recall they’re a very tough meat, you’ll want something that penetrates well and try for the side so that the bullet enters the chest at the point behind the foreleg, slightly above and immediately behind the elbow joint.

Shooting them just makes them cross.

A Mongo Wombat!

Gunshot would be one of the only effective ways to tenderise a wombat.

Self and Not Self. MacFarlane Burnet’s first book from 1969, which I read back then, states the perennial issue well in its very title, John H. Every individual has a different experience presented to their immune system at differing stages of their development (depending on where and when they lived at each stage) and a different genetic heritage available for mounting an immune response as well. We are not the same as each other, as you note with your own experience of Covid and the possible flow-on extrapolations from that.

Hence individuated tailored medicine is the way of the future.
Or we can just leave well enough alone. 🙂

The thing is at least the people advocating nuclear power understand this subsidised rubbish doesn’t work. The sa premier is actually a breath of fresh air.

I’m sure I saw his comments this week where he was adamantly against nuke power because it’s “horrendously expensive”.

Given Higgins has listed Reynolds and Cash as respondents, alongside the commonwealth, will the department demand that Reynolds and Cash be part of the mediation negotiations next week to provide their version of events.

Albrechtsen is alleged to be a lawyer, so she’s flat out lying here.
Mediation isn’t adversarial, and Reynolds has already apologised and paid Higgins $20 grand for calling her a “lying cow”.

Re: the inflation and fuel cost, Elbow could always cancel fuel excise.

News today is Albo is going to throw dosh at us instead.

Australian households and businesses will receive $1.5 billion in bill relief to help ease growing power bill burden (9 Dec)

“Millions of Australian households will soon be the beneficiary of a $1.5 billion plan by the Albanese Government to ease skyrocketing energy bills.

The Commonwealth will provide up to $1.5 billion of support to households and businesses which will be paid through state governments by directly reducing people’s bills.”

Tax us more Daddy so that you can give us some of the money back! It’s madness.

Biden has to re-fill the SPR

He won’t. The Bernie Bros who run the Biden Administration are violently green. They want the SPR empty for ideological reasons.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
December 10, 2022 at 10:24 am
Self and Not Self. MacFarlane Burnet’s first book from 1969, which I read back then, states the perennial issue well in its very title, John H. Every individual has a different experience presented to their immune system at differing stages of their development (depending on where and when they lived at each stage) and a different genetic heritage available for mounting an immune response as well. We are not the same as each other, as you note with your own experience of Covid and the possible flow-on extrapolations from that.

Hence individuated tailored medicine is the way of the future.
Or we can just leave well enough alone

That’s the old model Lizzie. Thecurrent model is Polly Matzinger’s Danger Theory. Very gifted woman, carpenter, jazz musician and a Playboy bunny before she went into research.

I’m not so much into models though because immunology is a not a system it is a cobbled together set of strategies of limited efficacy. When it comes to protecting us against bugs evolution fails. Infection has always been a major killer and in the elderly still is.

They want the SPR empty for ideological reasons.

Nonsense. It will have to be replenished at some point. One decent hurricane season will see to that. And I’m sure sensible heads in the military will have something to say also.

BJ Munty would sacrifice his wife’s children on the altar of Gaia if he thought it would save him from missing out on Krispy Kremes, such is the psyche of the left. Any perceived concern for others is to mask the narcissistic bent of every lefty.