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RSA ANIMATE: The Divided Brain

Royal Society of Arts · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Neuroscience & the brainConsciousness & cognition

What it is

An RSA Animate summary of Iain McGilchrist's lecture on the divided brain, arguing the brain's two hemispheres attend to the world differently and that this has shaped culture and society.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as an accessible animated introduction to McGilchrist's thesis on hemispheres and narrow versus diffuse attention.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “This entire video is really excellent”

    McGilchrist describes narrow versus diffuse attention

    gerbilly, 2021-11 · Strong recommendation · in “Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus”

  2. “You might want to watch the RSA Animated talk by McGilchrist”

    Animated introduction to McGilchrist's divided brain thesis

    no_identd, 2018-05 · Recommendation · in “Is Information in the Brain Represented in Continuous or Discrete Form?”

  3. “There is a good animated summary of his work”

    Animated summary of McGilchrist's work on the right hemisphere

    AltruisticGap, 2018-09 · Recommendation · in “Naked Europe covers up”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: iain mcgilchrist, divided brain, attention, neuroscience, rsa animate

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