So this particular model is entirely self consistent because it's made itself so.

My left hemisphere, our left hemisphere, is a very different place.

And it actually has a growing repertoire of cognitive skills.

Tim uses his thoughts to control an advanced prosthetic arm.

I work direct with the right brain.

The right hemisphere doesn't have a voice.

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Our left hemisphere thinks linearly and methodically.

From there the activity moves through the short term memory areas and then to the front of the brain, the part actually involved in thinking.

I woke up to discover that I had a brain disorder of my own.

We have a recent rectangular transection to the left occipital lobe.

When I say we, I don't mean you, necessarily

What are they doing?

So I think, unfortunately, a lot of neuroscientists, we're all somewhat narcissistic.

Do you know what it is? Anyone?

And this is so marked, that even in the left hander that is using the right hemisphere in daily life to manipulate tools with their left hand.

And changes the view of the body.

It's not true that visual imagery is only in the right hemisphere, lots of it is in the left.

My thoughts to your thoughts.

Our minds are one.

Is it thinking lamprey eel thoughts, sitting there in its nutrient medium?

And its my suggestion to you, that in the history of western culture, things started, in the 6th Century B.C. Augustan Era, and in the 15th 16th Century in Europe, with a wonderful balancing of these hemispheres.

Another English braindead idea...

What is going on?

I still like that intuitive versus analytical thing, because everybody wants to do the right brain, left brain thing, right?

Exercise is to the body what thinking is to the brain.

And then, that energy is sort of spreading throughout his thought areas.

And so if you looked at my brain, or any brain that's infected with a viral memetic infection like this, and compared it to anyone in this room, or anyone who uses critical thinking on a regular basis,

And the reason why I use the word force when Roz was up here and talking about the emotion tracking, and she had the picture of two sides of the brain

Here are the types of thinking photo realistic visual thinkers, like me pattern thinkers, music and math minds.

For those of you who aren't familiar with memetics, a meme has been defined as an idea that replicates in the human brain and moves from brain to brain like a virus, much like a virus.

It's all about right here, right now.

It actually has a disposition for the living, rather than the mechanical.

And in this moment we are perfect, we are whole and we are beautiful.

The second insight is that emotions are at the center of our thinking.

Think? What's the use of saying 'Think'?

Competition between the left and the right hemispheres of your brain.

Day tink day brains so big.

And as you think about it,

Secondly, intelligence is dynamic.

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So something very important is going on here about keeping things apart from one another.

I think there are three reasons.

like you have to be still you have to not have thoughts.

Why go to the trouble to expand some bits of one hemisphere and some bits of another... unless they were doing rather different things.