Can we make sense of the cosmos? | Iain McGilchrist and Hilary Lawson | Full Discussion

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Iain McGilchrist and Hilary Lawson grapple with the concept of reality.

Would we ever make sense of the cosmos?

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Join groundbreaking psychiatrist, writer, philosopher, and literary scholar Iain McGilchrist in this exclusive studio interview with post-postmodern philosopher Hilary Lawson. The two thinkers explore McGilchrist's early introduction to philosophy, the nature of truth and the cosmos, and the danger of delusional thinking from the left brain.

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Iain McGilchrist is an Oxford scholar and polymath whose 'clarity, lucidity and almost hypnotically compelling style' has seen him rise to prominence as a world-wide lecturer and public intellectual.

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