![]() Confession: this reader is taking time out for a quick intellectual recharge before padding up for volume two (though return I will). ![]() Imagine batting all day against 95 miles per hour bowlers on a bouncy cricket pitch, getting through to the close of play, and being told to grab a quick ice-bath then get back out there under the hot sun again tomorrow. After 800 pages of volume one, you are directed to volume two. Iain McGilchrist’s new book The Matter with Things – Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, while anchored in neuroscience, expands quickly into a treatise on philosophy, the scientific method, intuition, creativity, truth, reason and the rise and fall of civilisation itself. ![]()
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