There has been so much construction and writing as of late, and I have to say, it has helped me in putting together a picture with my most fundamental point of view.
After talking about right brain so much, it's funny to hear you say that, because what is here on this site includes proposing an architecture, which would be a left-brain addition, but also talks about its ongoing function as including its share of right-brain activity (with the action/interaction of it). I think the left side will keep a person alive.
Left/right brain thinking as proposed by Iain McGilchrist are fine as metaphors. But I don't believe in that concept literally. Our knowledge of neurological processes is too limited to make such claims.
Or is it just your reality? Is it your truth or THE truth? Does it work, or do you insist that it works? Dr. Ian McGilchrist points out that as living star-stuff, we must grasp our prey, but also avoid being grasped by predators: the most basic algorithm of survival. Those are also the original roles of our left and right hemispheres. So if 90 % of humanity is right handed (left-brain dominant), will we perish by our intellect? As a south paw, I’m of two minds about that. It makes me wonder about the evolutionary path that got us to this precipice. How about the opposite? For example, is it possible there’s another Earth where right brains dominate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-T6aaRV9HY This dilemma reminds me of the Britishism, “too clever by half”, humorously exemplified by the character Sheldon Cooper in the American comedy series “The Big Bang”.
Moderation in all things helps.
I appreciate technology and nature.
Imagination and fantasy begin where reality and pragmatism end.
After talking about right brain so much, it's funny to hear you say that, because what is here on this site includes proposing an architecture, which would be a left-brain addition, but also talks about its ongoing function as including its share of right-brain activity (with the action/interaction of it). I think the left side will keep a person alive.
Left/right brain thinking as proposed by Iain McGilchrist are fine as metaphors. But I don't believe in that concept literally. Our knowledge of neurological processes is too limited to make such claims.
OK. FYI, I adopted that point of view years before I had heard of him. I had mentioned this in Building Communities part 1. Cheers.
https://markgmeyers.substack.com/p/building-communities-1-of-3
Oh my, I was a kid when I first heard of it. Being a lefty almost guarantees someone will mention how I'm 'right brained' 😅👈
“Perception is Reality”
Or is it just your reality? Is it your truth or THE truth? Does it work, or do you insist that it works? Dr. Ian McGilchrist points out that as living star-stuff, we must grasp our prey, but also avoid being grasped by predators: the most basic algorithm of survival. Those are also the original roles of our left and right hemispheres. So if 90 % of humanity is right handed (left-brain dominant), will we perish by our intellect? As a south paw, I’m of two minds about that. It makes me wonder about the evolutionary path that got us to this precipice. How about the opposite? For example, is it possible there’s another Earth where right brains dominate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-T6aaRV9HY This dilemma reminds me of the Britishism, “too clever by half”, humorously exemplified by the character Sheldon Cooper in the American comedy series “The Big Bang”.