Iain McGilchrist
Definition
Scottish psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and philosopher (b. 1953) whose research on hemispheric brain-articulation provides bridge-science articulation between modern-neuroscience and the broader contemplative-tradition. Iain McGilchrist's articulations in *The Master and His Emissary* (2009) and *The Matter With Things* (2021) participate in the Netist bridge-science articulation through the structural-recognition that the right-hemisphere articulates contemplative-attention features the left-hemisphere alone cannot capture.
Literal meaning
Scottish psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and philosopher (b. 1953). McGilchrist's specific-articulations include *The Master and His Emissary* (2009) and *The Matter With Things* (2021); the articulations articulate hemispheric brain-research with broader philosophical-and-contemplative articulation.
Esoteric meaning
Iain McGilchrist articulates the structural-feature of *the modern-neuroscientist articulating-hemispheric-asymmetry as foundational to the broader-knowing*. The structural-recognition is that McGilchrist's research on right-hemisphere primacy in attention, perception, and the broader cognitive-articulation provides modern-bridge articulation for the broader contemplative-tradition's articulation of *direct-knowing versus discursive-knowing*. The relationship to *The Brain Argues, the Spirit Knows* article is structural: McGilchrist's research provides modern-articulation for the broader recognition that conceptual-thinking and direct-knowing are structurally-distinct cognitive-articulations.
Allegorical meaning
A scientist who has carefully-documented the structural-features of two-handed-tool-use in human cognition: the dominant-hand articulates specific features, the non-dominant hand articulates structurally-different features, and the structural-recognition is that integrated-use of both-hands produces capability that single-hand-use cannot achieve.
Extended meaning
Iain McGilchrist articulates several specific structural-features in the broader Netist tradition: (1) The right-hemisphere articulates contemplative-attention features: open-attention, broad-perception, integration-of-context, and the broader articulation of direct-knowing modes; (2) The left-hemisphere articulates analytical-attention features: focused-attention, detailed-articulation, abstraction, and the broader articulation of discursive-knowing modes; (3) The integrated-balance between hemispheric-articulations supports the broader-knowing the contemplative-tradition recognizes; the McGilchrist articulation argues that modern-Western-culture has over-emphasized left-hemispheric articulation, producing structural-distortion in the broader cognitive-articulation; (4) The contemplative-traditions cultivate right-hemispheric articulation through specific practices; McGilchrist's research provides modern-neuroscience-articulation of why these practices produce structural-effects. The relationship to *Lakhar*, *The Brain Argues, the Spirit Knows*, *Witness*, and the broader contemplative-cognition articulations is structural.
*Iain McGilchrist* articulates the modern bridge-science figure for hemispheric-cognition. The article complements *The Brain Argues, the Spirit Knows*, *Lakhar*, *Witness*, and the broader cognitive-articulations.
Usage
A practitioner encounters Iain McGilchrist in the broader articulation of bridge-science and in specific contexts of cognitive-and-contemplative research.
Science correspondence
Iain McGilchrist's *The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World* (2009) and *The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World* (2021). The contemporary research at the broader McGilchrist research-community.