本期播客中，Jim再次与Iain McGilchrist就其著作《事物的本质：我们的头脑、我们的错觉以及世界的解体》中的观点进行探讨。他们讨论了时间连续性在人类尺度上的重要性、随机性作为宇宙真实属性、区分不可预测性和随机性、确定性混沌、量子力学中的测量问题、意识作为本体论原始概念与生物学过程、将意识与智能区分开来、生命力作为程度问题、非还原论的视角、有限与无限游戏、内在与外在目的、白尾鹿的目的、目的论的意义、生命中趋向于增加的复杂性、人类自我驯化、将多世界理论与右脑损伤联系起来、拒绝来自无限的论据的理由、地外文明存在的可能性、悖论的教训等等。

👨‍🏫 本期播客延续上期内容，继续探讨《事物的本质》一书中的核心观点，例如时间连续性在人类尺度上的重要性，以及如何区分不可预测性和随机性等。

🧠 讨论了意识作为本体论原始概念与生物学过程的区别，以及将意识与智能区分开来的必要性，并探讨了生命力作为程度问题，以及非还原论的视角如何理解目的和意义。

🌌 此外，本期还涉及了有限与无限游戏、内在与外在目的、白尾鹿的目的、目的论的意义、生命中趋向于增加的复杂性、人类自我驯化、将多世界理论与右脑损伤联系起来、拒绝来自无限的论据的理由、地外文明存在的可能性、悖论的教训等等。

🔭 本期播客内容丰富，涵盖了多个学科领域，旨在帮助听众从更广阔的视角理解世界，并思考人类在宇宙中的位置和意义。

🧬 Iain McGilchrist 认为，只有将思维和大脑置于最广阔的背景下，即我们整个物理和精神存在以及它们所产生的更广泛的人类文化中，才能理解它们。这种文化有助于塑造我们的思维和大脑，反过来也受到我们的思维和大脑的塑造。

Jim has a second talk with Iain McGilchrist about the ideas in his book The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World...Jim has a second talk with Iain McGilchrist about the ideas in his book The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World. They discuss whether the continuity of time matters on the human scale, randomness as a real attribute of the universe, differentiating between unpredictability & randomness, deterministic chaos, the measurement problem in quantum mechanics, consciousness as an ontological primitive vs a biological process, separating consciousness from intelligence, animacy as a matter of degree, a non-reductionist view of purpose, finite vs infinite games & intrinsic vs extrinsic purpose, the purpose(s) of a white-tailed deer, the meaning of teleology, a drive toward increased complexity in life, the self-domestication of humans, relating the many-worlds idea to right-hemisphere damage, reasons to reject arguments from infinity, the odds of extraterrestrial intelligence, the lesson of paradoxes, and much more. Episode Transcript JRS EP 154: Iain McGilchrist on The Matter With Things The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, by Iain McGilchrist JRS EP5: Lee Smolin – Quantum Foundations and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution JRS EP11: Dave Snowden and Systems Thinking Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility, by James P. CarseIain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, and a former Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. He now lives on the Isle of Skye, off the coast of North West Scotland, where he continues to write, and lectures worldwide. He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they arise – the culture which helps to mould, and in turn is moulded by, our minds and brains.