On 29 November 2003 8:47 AM Ricardo Sosa quoted from a paper by H. Simon:
"So the two hemispheres do not divide us into two kinds of human beings, each
with our specialized ways of thinking. **We can dismiss at least this
particular potential source of human disparity**."
I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT ONE THING THAT MIGHT BE IMPORTANT ABOUT THE
RIGHT/LEFT HEMISPHERE DISCUSSION IS THE QUALITIES OF THE KINDS OF THINKING,
FEELING AND ACTION THAT ARE ATTRIBUTED TO EACH RATHER THAN THE QUESTION OF
WHERE THEY ARE ACTUALLY OCCURING, BECAUSE THE QUALITIES OF EITHER "SIDE" ARE
HUMAN QUALITIES AND ABILITIES, AND THEREFORE IT IS IN CONSIDERING THE
APPLICATION OF THINKING, AND FEELING OF WHATEVER KIND THAT MIGHT BE QUITE
RELEVANT.
JAN
Jan Coker
C3-10 Underdale Campus
University of South Australia
+61 8 8302 6919
"There is no way to peace, peace is the way"
Gandhi
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From: Ricardo [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, 29 November 2003 8:47 AM
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Subject: Re: holistic processing of information
At 12:54 AM 11/29/2003, Rob Curedale wrote:
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > ...
> > As it turns out the RBrain is 90% of our capacity and LBrain
> (Logistics) only
> > max. 10%. We haven't yet evolved to our potential and we definitely need to
> > move to the right...to evolve further.
>
>Scientists used to also believe in the flat earth theory.
This is still relevant given the prevalence of this misconcenption amongst
designers.
Here is how H Simon (2001) summarised it :
"The empirical evidence simply does not support the idea that any complex
cognitive tasks are carried out in a single specialized brain hemisphere.
Moreover, histologically the hemispheres are highly similar and, in cases
of early brain damage, either one can sometimes assume with little or no
deficit the functions of the other. So the two hemispheres do not divide us
into two kinds of human beings, each with our specialized ways of thinking.
**We can dismiss at least this particular potential source of human
disparity**."
Simon, HA: 2001, Creativity in the arts and the sciences, The Kenyon
Review, 23(2), 203-221.
-- Ricardo Sosa
SID: 200036769
PhD candidate, 3rd year
Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition
Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney
http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rsos7705
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