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It seems to me that we face very grave crises indeed and that, if we are to survive, we need not just a few new measures, but a complete change of heart and mind.

There seems to be a sickness that has spread throughout society, and it has infected most people with a mindset that

is not suitable for individual or social flourishing.

In this video, we explore a fascinating hypothesis put forth by the psychiatrist and neuroscience

researcher Ian McGilchrist that can help account for the sickness of the modern age.

This hypothesis suggests that most people rely too heavily on one side of the brain,

which is leading to a peculiar worldview and a pathological way of being

that is characterized by stubbornness, a lack of empathy, a desire for power, and an overall disconnection from reality.

Brains and minds are living, constantly adapting, interconnected systems, writes McGilchrist, and they are conscious.

A brain disease or mental illness, then, is a change in a person's whole way of being in the world.

To understand the mental pathology that has infected society, we must begin with a basic

understanding of the structure of the human brain, or specifically its bipartite nature.

The word bipartite means involving or made up of two entities. The human brain is

bipartite as it is divided into two asymmetrical hemispheres, the left hemisphere and the right

hemisphere. This asymmetrical division is not unique to humans, but is found in every neuronal

system of every known creature stretching

back to the beginning of evolutionary history. Why is this? What purpose does it serve? Or as

McGilchrist asks, why are the two cerebral hemispheres asymmetrical? Do they really differ in any

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