“There was once a wise spiritual master, who was the ruler of a small but prosperous domain, and who was known for his selfless devotion to this people. McGilchrist’s title is taken from a story he has (apparently) misattributed to Nietzsche: Here, though, I have set myself the modest task of taking notes on the Introduction to McGilchrist’s book. I disagree, for reasons that I will spell out in due course. Scientism is the term given to those who advocate that science is the only means of understanding the objective nature of reality and that, in case where they come into conflict, our commonsense descriptions of the world should yield to our scientific ones. I discovered Iain McGilchrist while listening to an interview he did with Jordan Peterson on The Jordan Peterson podcast, which can be heard here. Upon hearing about his book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, I knew it would figure heavily into my dissertation, the basic thesis of which is (informally put) that an epistemic mess is made when we misunderstand the relationship and confuse the boundaries between our commonsense understanding of the world and our technical/analytic/scientific understanding of the world.
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