In this RSAnimate piece, renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society. It’s worth listening to the full lecture, but in his closing summary, he suggests that Einstein’s thinking somehow precepts this thing about the structure of the brain: ‘The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind a faithful servant. We have created a society which honours the servant but has forgotten the gift.’
