Iain McGilchrist vs Scott Barry Kaufman
How poetry captures the difficulty of reality
The trial of St Nick
Women's corruption and bondage
Does art hold the key to progress?
Making and manipulating crises in the West
Twitter rows and the dangers of scientism
The two thinkers share a stage at HowTheLightGetsIn
Weil said progress is a myth. Should we listen?
The dangers of the appearance–reality distinction
How fiction can help us to understand reality
Philip Goff on how Pullman preempted panpsychism.
Why do we crave dystopia?
The weaponization of Russian identity
Yearning for ritual and repetition
Beyond individualism
Pre-historic humans were happier
People create order, not states
Why you are destined to repeat yourself
We need a cognitive history of humanity
Been Enjoying Korean Shows? Get Ready for Korean Thought.
Stepping out of the competition
An unforgiving metaphor for our times
An era of oscillation between irony and deep sincerity
We treat it so at our peril
Metaphysics manifested in art
The real muddle of autobiography
The virtue of doing not very much
The dreadful allure of Edgar Allan
Living through a real life drama
Sharing realities through lyrical language
Nonsense poetry reveals irrationality in reason.