Iain McGilchrist

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TRTrust in Reason

  9 / 10
• MRMystical Receptivity

  7 / 10
• VAVital Affirmation

  6 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  6 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Johannes KeplerCARTOGRAPHER

  Planets dance to laws — mysticism and precise measurement together.

• AnaximanderCARTOGRAPHER

  The boundless (apeiron) is the source of all things — pre-Socratic first physics.

• Alfred Russel WallaceCARTOGRAPHER

  Co-discoverer of natural selection; spiritualism on the human side.

• Ilya PrigogineCARTOGRAPHER

  Dissipative structures — order through far-from-equilibrium flow.

• David BohmCARTOGRAPHER

  Wholeness and the Implicate Order — physics and dialogue at the deepest level.

• AnaxagorasCARTOGRAPHER

  Nous (mind) orders an infinite mixture of seeds into a cosmos.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Iain McGilchrist's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Argument mapping →

  Draw the structure of an argument as boxes and arrows. See its load-bearing walls.

• Reductio ad absurdum →

  Take a claim seriously, run it to its logical limit, see if you still believe it.

• Counterexample drill →

  Try to break a moral rule with a single concrete case.