This Isle is Full of Noises

This Isle is Full of Noises

The Brain as a Metaphor

A defence of Iain McGilchrist's neuroscientific 'theory of everything'

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Matt Whiteley
Mar 29, 2026
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Iain McGilchrist in a recent discussion with Anil Seth on Justin Brierley’s Think Faith

Recently Substack’s Tommy Blanchard wrote a thoroughly interesting article on the question of the brain’s two hemispheres and right handedness, and in passing commented on Iain McGilchrist’s popular theory that the problems of the modern world are due to the overempha…

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