The Master and His Emissary: Dr. Iain McGilchrist

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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While in the UK, recently, I had a chance to sit down for an all-too-short half-hour with Dr. Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary (description below). Our conversation was taped by Perspectiva (http://bit.ly/2EOCiU0), who described it as follows: "An extraordinary half-hour conversation about the brain, chaos, order, freedom, evil, mythology, being, and becoming between two of the leading thinkers of our time."

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson podcast.
0:05.8	You can support these podcasts by donating to Dr. Peterson's Patreon, the link to which
0:10.3	can be found in the description.
0:12.8	Dr. Peterson's self-development programs, self-authoring can be found at self-authoring.com.
0:18.2	Well, I have a question.
0:22.1	I guess I'd like to know a little bit more about why you specifically chose the title,
0:27.3	the Master and the MSSerry.
0:29.5	Yeah.
0:31.5	That's to, in an attempt to explain what I believe to be the relationship between the
0:36.6	Patreon and MSSphere.
0:38.6	And like most other things in life, they're in equal and asymmetrical.
0:43.8	And that one of the brain hemispheres sees more than the other.
0:48.8	That is the one that I've designated the Master and is the right MSSphere.
0:53.3	That's a weird inversion because people often think of the left hemisphere as the one
0:57.6	that's like dominant.
0:59.1	They do.
1:00.1	They do traditionally.
1:01.1	That's been the case.
1:02.1	But as is becoming ever clearer, the right hemisphere, this has been a real steep learning
1:09.5	curve for some people.
1:10.9	But the right hemisphere is in many ways more reliable, sees more, understands more than
1:17.4	the left hemisphere, which is like a sort of high functioning bureaucrat in the way.
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