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Nomination created on August 26, 2026

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“I heard of Iain for the first time on a podcast episode with John Vervaeke and Daniel Schmachtenberger and he blew my mind (not sure which side though!). A lot of his ideas immediately slotted into my/Third Brain's latticework, and I would be honored to have him as a guest”
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How should we think about free will in a brain that is constantly monitoring, negotiating, and re-constructing itself from two different perspectives?
If consciousness is not a single controller but a dynamic interplay of two contrary ways of relating to reality, does the very idea of a stable, autonomous self — and of free will — need to be reframed?
What would a society designed around right-hemisphere values — connection, ambiguity, and reverence — actually look like?
If we took McGilchrist's diagnosis seriously, how would we redesign education, leadership, urban life, and governance to nurture the right hemisphere's openness to the world rather than suppress it?
The right hemisphere has become the neglected source of wisdom in a culture dominated by left-hemisphere attention
McGilchrist's core thesis: the brain's two hemispheres are not different processing units but different ways of attending to the world, and modern Western culture has dangerously over-invested in the narrow, focused attention of the left hemisphere at the expense of the right's broad, embodied, contextual awareness.