The predominance of the administrative or bureaucratic mind over almost every aspect of modern life is deeply damaging; it reflects a left-hemisphere way of trying to control and 'understand' things while misunderstanding what it is dealing with.

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Iain McGilchrist

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one of the things I feel about the age we live in is the predominance of the administrative or bureaucratic Mind Over almost every aspect of Our Lives and I think this is deeply damaging and I think it's an exhibition of the left hemisphere's way of both trying to understand but misunderstanding what it's dealing with

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Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversationDr Iain McGilchrist
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:27:29 PM

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