My review was of his latest, The Matter with Things, which is excellent but needs quite an investment of time and attention. I haven’t read TMAHE, which may be a lighter if less up to date version of his thesis. Perhaps I should - add another tome to the pile 😂
Wonderful thoughts, Gareth! -- and some day if you wish, perhaps you might muse further on "distributed" selves (or non-selves) -- e.g., Daniel Dennett's comments in FREEDOM EVOLVES:
"If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything" with footnote: "This was probably the most important sentence in Elbow Room (Dennett 1984, p. 143), and I made the stupid mistake of putting it in parentheses. I've been correcting that mistake in my work ever since, drawing out the many implications of abandoning the idea of a punctate self. Of course, what I meant to stress with my ironic formulation was the converse: You'd be surprised how much you can internalize, if you make yourself large."
Thank you, Mark! I'm not familiar with that work of Dennett's, but I will definitely check it out. Yes, there's a lot of interesting material here - and links back to Buddhist ideas of self/not-self, and from there to the idea of a "greater" self. I will definitely have a think about something I can write about all of that. I did touch on some of this in an old post: https://garethsouthwell.substack.com/p/who-am-i
I find it unlikely that anyone preoccupied with marmite (as am I) would be audio read in an American accent.
Yes, it must be British. Maybe Australian, if you substituted "Vegemite" (though it's not quite the same). What are you using to narrate it?
My own voice, if I can be a***d 😂
I see you've reviewed Iain McGilchrist. I've been meaning to read The Master and His Emissary.
My review was of his latest, The Matter with Things, which is excellent but needs quite an investment of time and attention. I haven’t read TMAHE, which may be a lighter if less up to date version of his thesis. Perhaps I should - add another tome to the pile 😂
Yes, so many tomes...
I've yet to read your review - which I will do.
Wonderful thoughts, Gareth! -- and some day if you wish, perhaps you might muse further on "distributed" selves (or non-selves) -- e.g., Daniel Dennett's comments in FREEDOM EVOLVES:
"If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything" with footnote: "This was probably the most important sentence in Elbow Room (Dennett 1984, p. 143), and I made the stupid mistake of putting it in parentheses. I've been correcting that mistake in my work ever since, drawing out the many implications of abandoning the idea of a punctate self. Of course, what I meant to stress with my ironic formulation was the converse: You'd be surprised how much you can internalize, if you make yourself large."
and so forth ... see the random note-to-self (?!) at https://zhurnaly.com/z/No-Self,%20One-Self,%20All-Self.html with links ...
THANK YOU again for thoughtful & provocative essay, GS! 🦄
Thank you, Mark! I'm not familiar with that work of Dennett's, but I will definitely check it out. Yes, there's a lot of interesting material here - and links back to Buddhist ideas of self/not-self, and from there to the idea of a "greater" self. I will definitely have a think about something I can write about all of that. I did touch on some of this in an old post: https://garethsouthwell.substack.com/p/who-am-i