Dr Iain McGilchrist discusses his new book, ‘The Matter With Things’

Iain McGilchrist will contend that the world in which we live in the West is shaped by a set of beliefs about reality which we know from experience, and feel intuitively, to be almost certainly false. Though the consequences of this are widely deplored, we seem strangely powerless to resist it. We are as if in a trance, whistling a happy tune as we sleepwalk towards the abyss.

Because of the way we prioritise the left hemisphere’s take on the world, we have ceased to appreciate the meaning of continuity and flow, instead…

There is a widely-held view that religion and science are incompatible.  How true is this – in any sense?  Do they conflict in their vision…