Iain McGilchrist and Rowan Williams discuss the limits of materialism.

What is knowledge?

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Who are we? Why are we here? Does life have a meaning beyond itself? Join former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and groundbreaking psychiatrist, literary scholar and author of 'The Matter with Things', Iain McGilchrist, to explore the nature of meaning, and why we should move beyond the assumptions of a materialist worldview from radically divergent perspectives.

#knowledge #materialism #psychiatry #theology

Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence. Rowan Williams is the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, and is a highly acclaimed theologian, writer, and pastor.

00:00 Introduction
01:06 Iain McGilchrist: We have lost sight of the nature of reality
03:55 Rowan Williams: The mythology of mere matter
07:22 McGilchrist: Two hemispheres
10:18 Williams: Knowledge is relational
12:31 McGilchrist: Intuition
14:02 Williams: The failings of online diagnosis
15:10 McGilchrist: AI cannot understand relationships

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