Links
Video clips:
A good starting place is the RSA blog, which gives a good summary of many of the key points of the book, as well as containing the video clip of the RSA lecture, now on YouTube, which conveys briefly some of the implications of The Master and his Emissary. Part of the talk has been animated by Andrew Park for the RSA and is also available on YouTube.
Debates with Roger Penrose and others on the nature of consciousness, and with Jonathan Ree and others on creativity and play, at the 2010 Hay on Wye philosophy festival, HowTheLightGetsIn, can now be downloaded as podcasts. A short clip from the latter has found its way onto YouTube.
From the 2011 HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, there is a talk on psychotic art, A Spider in the Eye; a debate with cognitive neuroscientist Colin Blakemore and journalist Bryan Appleyard about scientific reductionism and the mind-brain problem, and a debate with philosopher Peter Hacker and novelist Joanna Kavenna on the nature of Romanticism.
A few clips from the two-part documentary Soul Searching which was screened by Channel 4 in 2004 have appeared on the web at YouTube: 1, 2, 3. The DVD of the series can be bought here.
Audio clips:
The best audio clip is from Australia's national public service radio ABC's All In The Mind, which also exists as a podcast. There is also supplementary material from the same interview here. There is a very brief clip from the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, and a slightly longer one from Start the Week with Andrew Marr, which can be downloaded as a podcast.
Online interviews:
There are a couple of interviews on line in some interesting blogs:
- interview with Jessa Crispin, the editor of Bookslut.com
- interview with Stephen Ginn, the editor of Frontier Psychiatrist
- interview with The Morning News
The Guardian columnist Mark Vernon’s excellent blog contains a response to the ideas in The Master and his Emissary: a second piece applies the ideas to a double portrait by Ghirlandaio. Here he reflects on the apophatic path to knowledge and the relationship between the hemispheres.
Another clip, which was simply a promotional video aimed at GPs to increase understanding and awareness of addiction problems, has also appeared on DailyMotion: