The Matter with Things
Author:Iain McGilchrist
Edition:1st Edition
The nature of reality, consciousness, and human understanding is examined through a philosophical and neuroscientific lens, building on the relationship between the brain’s hemispheres. It explores perception, truth, meaning, and the limits of rationality, arguing for the importance of intuition, imagination, and holistic awareness in shaping how we interpret the world and our place within it.

Chapters
- Chapter 1: Some Preliminaries: How We Got Here→
- Chapter 2: Attention and Conscious Awareness→
- Chapter 3: Perception and How We Experience Reality→
- Chapter 4: Judgment and Meaning-Making→
- Chapter 5: Apprehension and Understanding→
- Chapter 6: Emotional and Social Intelligence→
- Chapter 7: Cognitive Intelligence and Thinking→
- Chapter 8: Creativity and Insight→
- Chapter 9: What Schizophrenia and Autism Can Tell Us→
- Chapter 10: What Is Truth?→
- Chapter 11: Science’s Claims on Truth→
- Chapter 12: The Science of Life and Left Hemisphere Capture→
- Chapter 13: Institutional Science and Truth→
- Chapter 14: Reason’s Claims on Truth→
- Chapter 15: Reason’s Progeny and Its Consequences→
- Chapter 16: Logical Paradox and Left Hemisphere Capture→
- Chapter 17: Intuition’s Claims on Truth→
- Chapter 18: The Untimely Demise of Intuition→
- Chapter 19: Intuition, Imagination, and World Disclosure→
- Chapter 20: The Coincidentia Oppositorum→
- Chapter 21: The One and the Many→
- Chapter 22: Time and Human Experience→
- Chapter 23: Flow and Movement→
- Chapter 24: Space and Matter→
- Chapter 25: Matter and Consciousness→
- Chapter 26: Value and Meaning→
- Chapter 27: Purpose, Life, and the Nature of the Cosmos→
- Chapter 28: The Sense of the Sacred→
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