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Iain McGilchrist
Personal blog · channelmcgilchrist.comphilosophyscience
Iain McGilchrist's personal blog at channelmcgilchrist.com covers philosophy and science. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Iain McGilchrist's site, which covers the left and right sides of the brain, and his Master and His Emissary material on how much thinking is subconscious.
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What Hacker News says?
https://channelmcgilchrist.com/ hm
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on “Neuroscientist argues the left side of our brains have taken over our minds”Submitted Freud and the Divided Brain as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMore than thoughts certainly, but don’t be so sure we control our thoughts. There is a lot of subconscious thinking machinery doing the driving. See Master and his Emissary, https://channelmcgilchrist.com/master-and-his-emissary/#:~:t...
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on “Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics”