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Iain McGilchrist
Iain McGilchrist
British Writer
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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
Sympathy Our Shakespeare Structure Individuals Demanded Stereotypes Category Commands Trump Hanged Refuses Unique Play
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
Music Art World Perspective Fragments Harmony See More More And More Tend Along Heap Meaningless
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent. Iain McGilchrist
Truth Simple Pure Rarely Seem Genetics Said Times Transparent
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary. Iain McGilchrist
Has-Been Would Webster Data Volumes Contains Calculated Genome Been Dictionary Human Much International Fill
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
Better Think Else Out Outcome See Something Something Else Understand Huge Huge Influence Model Get Depends Influence Whether Turns Choosing Compare Comparing Aware
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
Happiness You Culture Own Thinking Fragmented Relatively Way More Take Part Come Well-Being Becoming Integrated Provided Uprooted Being Which Social Your Disruptive

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