How Modernity Rewires Your Brain | Dr. Iain McGilchrist | 3/13/26

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Everything you think you know about the function of the human brain is wrong. Dr. Iain McGilchrist, author of "The Master and His Emissary," explains his groundbreaking discoveries about how the brain hemispheres really work. We also discuss how the modern world has focused almost entirely on one hemisphere of the brain, rewiring humans to think and behave in deeply unhealthy patterns. Follow on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-auron-macintyre-show/id1657770114 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3S6z4LBs8Fi7COupy7YYuM?si=4d9662cb34d148af Substack: https://auronmacintyre.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre Gab: https://gab.com/AuronMacIntyre YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/c/AuronMacIntyre Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-390155 Odysee: https://odysee.com/@AuronMacIntyre:f Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/auronmacintyre/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Thanks for joining me this afternoon. I've got a great stream with a great
0:04.2	guest that I think you're really going to enjoy. I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Mill
0:09.2	Gilcrest over in the UK during Jordan Peterson's conference that he was holding there. Actually,
0:15.5	we were introduced by Rob Dreher, funnily enough. At that time, I did not have a grasp of Mr. Gilchreys work, but I have dove into it and found it very interesting.
0:24.9	And I'm excited to talk to him about that today. So joining me is Dr. Ian McGilchrest. He is among many things, a philosopher, a neuroscientist, a biologist, a psychologist, all kinds of impressive accolades. Thank you so much for
0:39.1	joining me, sir. That's a great pleasure, Ron. Thank you. I'm looking forward to it.
0:45.8	Absolutely. So as I said, you've written a number of books. Master and Zimisnery might be the one
0:51.9	most people are most familiar with, but you also have philosophical tomes, many different disciplines all coming together.
0:59.0	And that's what I found so interesting when exploring your work.
1:03.0	And it all builds, I think, at some level, on your understanding of the human mind and the way that it works. And so perhaps it would be best for people who are unfamiliar with your work
1:14.6	to lay out kind of your basic thesis on the different hemispheres of the brain
1:20.6	and why so many people have gotten this wrong and kind of the pop science understanding
1:24.6	that is circulated around.
1:26.6	Yes, okay. pop science understanding that is circulated around.
1:29.6	Yes, okay.
1:39.0	When I started researching it, I was told in no uncertain terms by those who had my best interest at heart to leave the subject alone because it was considered toxic pop psychology.
1:45.9	And indeed, most of the things that did go into the Vox Pop back in the 60s, 70s and 80s about
1:54.5	hemisphere difference were wrong.
1:57.5	Why were they wrong?
1:59.0	And how on earth did people get excited about this around that time?
2:02.7	Well, I think the reason they got excited about it was that there was a life-saving operation
2:09.4	called Comisorotomy, which is the surgical division of the corpus callosum, the band
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