Oct 30, 2026 · 59 min · 11 segments
In this episode, our Chancellor, Dr Iain McGilchrist, sits down with President Stephen Blackwood to discuss the formation of a human being. From Plato's reflections on the conditions required for…
Iain McGilchristGuest
Stephen BlackwoodHostIt's very interesting because we're living in a time that one of the shorthands that people use, I think, very helpfully is of the meaning crisis.
And that leads to a scarcity mindset, as if one thinks that there's just not enough of it to go around.
The tradition is a precious gift, and as you say, it's open to everyone who wishes to learn to listen.
And you mentioned a meaning crisis, and undoubtedly I know what that means.
And meaning is an interesting thing that's not... often enough reflected on.
It's only when you put lots of these together, it's out of the relations between them that make the melody, the relations at the moment of time that make the harmony, the kind of ictus of the movement that makes the rhythm, as we call it.
That's an analogy for the way in which atomistic elements, whether they're single individual decontextualized human beings or single decontextualized elements of information, they have no meaning.
It's very interesting because we're living in a time that one of the shorthands that people use, I think, very helpfully is of the meaning crisis.
And that leads to a scarcity mindset, as if one thinks that there's just not enough of it to go around.
The tradition is a precious gift, and as you say, it's open to everyone who wishes to learn to listen.
And you mentioned a meaning crisis, and undoubtedly I know what that means.
And meaning is an interesting thing that's not... often enough reflected on.
It's only when you put lots of these together, it's out of the relations between them that make the melody, the relations at the moment of time that make the harmony, the kind of ictus of the movement that makes the rhythm, as we call it.
That's an analogy for the way in which atomistic elements, whether they're single individual decontextualized human beings or single decontextualized elements of information, they have no meaning.
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