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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
~ Iain McGilchrist
Aspect
Attention
Being
Coming
Conscious
Consciousness
Dull
Essential
Exists
Fact
Governs
In Fact
May
Out
Part
Plays
Sound
Therefore
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Us
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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
~ Iain McGilchrist
Becoming
Being
Come
Culture
Disruptive
Fragmented
Happiness
Integrated
More
Own
Part
Provided
Relatively
Social
Take
Thinking
Way
Well-Being
Which
You
Your
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
~ Iain McGilchrist
About
Animal
Being
Bunch
Facts
Feel
Follow
Hunters
Intellectually
Learn
Only
Understand
Very
Way
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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
~ Iain McGilchrist
Academic
After
Because
Between
Body
Brain
Career
Humanities
Interest
Mainly
Medicine
Mind
Pursuing
Relationship
Trained
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
~ Iain McGilchrist
Category
Commands
Demanded
Hanged
Individuals
Our
Play
Refuses
Shakespeare
Stereotypes
Structure
Sympathy
Trump
Unique
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It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.
~ Iain McGilchrist
About
Assume
Because
Disclose
Ends
Everything
Evidence
Favour
Founded
Inclined
Intuition
Just
Just Because
Like
Massive
Our
Pair
Rational
Rationality
Reason
Some
Some Things
Things
Use
Where
Without
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
~ Iain McGilchrist
Cultures
Destruction
Developing
Developing World
Globalisation
Illness
Led
Local
Mental
Mental Illness
Over
Recent
Recent Years
Rise
World
Years
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
~ Iain McGilchrist
Along
Art
Fragments
Harmony
Heap
Meaningless
More
More And More
Music
Perspective
See
Tend
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The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.
~ Iain McGilchrist
Architect
Blocks
Blueprint
Builder
Building
Building Blocks
Combination
Design
Genome
Just
Like
List
Living
Once
Organism
Parts
Plan
Put
Somehow
Supplies
Thought
Together
Way
Which
Whole
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
~ Iain McGilchrist
Been
Calculated
Contains
Data
Dictionary
Fill
Genome
Has-Been
Human
International
Much
Volumes
Would
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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
~ Iain McGilchrist
Architecture
Concrete
Imperial
Invention
Late
Made
Possible
Roman
Vastness
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
~ Iain McGilchrist
Busyness
Creativity
Drive
Happen
Make
Nature
Our
Out
Plans
Space
Things
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
~ Iain McGilchrist
Genetics
Pure
Rarely
Said
Seem
Simple
Times
Transparent
Truth
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The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
~ Iain McGilchrist
Appears
Fact
In Fact
Literal
Metaphorical
Metaphysics
Physics
Truth
World
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
~ Iain McGilchrist
Aware
Better
Choosing
Compare
Comparing
Depends
Else
Get
Huge
Huge Influence
Influence
Model
Out
Outcome
See
Something
Something Else
Think
Turns
Understand
Whether
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
~ Iain McGilchrist
Blind
Cells
Genes
Only
Over
Total
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