Iain McGilchrist: How to escape left-brain thinking

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks with neuroscientist and philosopher Dr. Iain McGilchrist about the psychological and cultural crisis resulting from our modern reliance on the brain's analytical left hemisphere, a perspective that views the world as a collection of inanimate parts rather than a living whole, while making a compelling case for the rehabilitation of myth and religious tradition as essential pathways to a deeper, relational truth that can protect Western civilisation from the dehumanising effects of purely mechanistic thinking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Iain McGilchrist: How to escape left-brain thinking is an episode from Lockdown TV with Freddie Sayers by Sebastian Giraud.

This episode is 1:06:57 long.

This episode was published on Apr 12, 2026.

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