brain hemispheres
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February 6th, 2024
- cool article about him bridging brain hemispheres thesideview.co/journal/the-zigzag-man/
May 29th, 2023
- old brain hemispheres notes from workflowy
- further on the comic etc #idea
- RH can point out to LH "the bridge is out ahead", and LH can then look up from the map and check this
- but LH will not by default notice anything else that's inaccurate about the map
- Max Harms said to me 2020-01-31 when I shared this idea
- ~"there's a mode of picking up the map not to use it but to update it"
- hemisphere books
- Liminal Thinking
- Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps
- others on my shelf
- mysticism, science & not-knowing twitter.com/TorriYatesOrr/status/1200850050412400640
- person stoked by intro of Ways of Attending
- Just left hemisphere things
- thread by Chapman on parallelness of brains and non-logic stuff
- maybe reply with my tweets about how the LH takes itself as primary
- tweet where I talk about cups & playing a LH/RH game twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1148003045424414720
- "no ordinary apple" from Aro folks gmail.com/#all/FMfcgxwDsFWjfzvxDrfPfWqqVxMxxMJH
- person raving about M&E
- twitter thread about McGilchrist & surrendering to God
- tweet about truth as process
- remark in Fluidity Ark (re Kegan stages)
- Oooooh this dovetails really excitingly with recent thinking I've been doing. I've been learning more about Iain McGilchrist's new brain hemisphere model, and... (this might sound naive if viewed through the old pop psychology model, but bear with me)
The left hemisphere maintains a worldview that it thinks is consistent and perfect, always. That's its main job: to treat the world as something it understands and can manipulate. Modern Western culture WAY overemphasizes the left-hemisphere's way of thinking. This means that as people develop more sophisticated ways of making sense of the world, whether via rationality or new age stuff, they end up with some sort of system that they interpret everything through and are trying to follow to produce a right answer. If that system is external, you're K3; if its internal, K4. K5 represents transcending that stuckness by accessing the more open-ended right hemisphere perspective and allowing its validity.
The above is obviously a gross oversimplification, but there is a thing that feels important and true about it that is missing from the other ways I've thought about the Kegan model. Essentially, this implies that there's still a developmental thing in terms of mastering the left & right hemisphere's unique strengths and coordinating between them, but that the specific arc Kegan identified may be very much a pathology that is shared among all modern Western folk (and maybe a larger group, to a lesser extent) rather than the path of development you'd see in an already-fluid society where people are never taught to get so attached to their concept of right & wrong (which all lives in the LH).
February 16th, 2022
watching Awakening from the Meaning Crisis by John Vervaeke › Ep. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction › > ignorance is a lack of knowledge; foolishness is lack o… › > the very machinery that makes you so intelligent makes …
- (seems related to brain hemispheres)
Podcast summaries
- Keywords - brain hemispheres coercion what is coercion? productivity scapegoat Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings everyone is constantly overgeneralizing Conversation As Medium make shared or different frames explicit shared train of thought do people naturally self-regulate how deep they're willing to go? commitment/choice is a confused way to relate to stances/mindsets dream mashups Unlocking the Emotional Brain IFS partswork what might a healthy community look like? doing community well The Master and his Emissary intro left hemisphere right hemisphere Behavior: The Control of Perception Perceptual Control Theory Hemisphere DharmaChange doesn't just happenHemispheres & Self-improvement left hemispheres aren't made for interfacing with other people Perceptual Control Theory control systems
- Keywords - brain hemispheres McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model Perceptual Control Theory barn-raising Internal Family Systems blindspot blindspot feedback is hard (but possible!) it's only possible to be rational within a frame make shared or different frames explicit Change doesn't just happen Intend productivity Intend Philosophy & Paradigm how to think about goals PCT internal conflict much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly What are the components or dimensions required for collaborative culture? Geoffrey West Questions for teasing apart the concept of commitment commitment/choice is a confused way to relate to stances/mindsets Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings everyone is constantly overgeneralizing acceptance isn't the same as acceptance safety self-trust right hemisphere left hemisphere self-energizing
With Jonny Miller — Podcast with Jonny Miller Transcript › Outline of ideas discussed. (I'm M, Jonny is J)
- 1:02:27 - 1:10:32 - Why is Ian McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model valuable? McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model brain hemispheres much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly What are the components or dimensions required for collaborative culture? Geoffrey West Questions for teasing apart the concept of commitment commitment/choice is a confused way to relate to stances/mindsets
September 7th, 2021
- maybe since both hemispheres are always active
- default mode network ~= right hemisphere running the show
- task-positive network ~= left hemisphere running the show
- (this is a very straw handwavy guess though)
- see research described by Loch Kelly on different kinds of meditation having different effects on these networks though
August 28th, 2021
- on a call w people talking about The Master and his Emissary brain hemispheres model, and struck by how easy it is to pattern-match thinking that rejects other thinking onto the discussion of limitations of the left hemisphere
- although in principle McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model could allow us to get less dogmatic and judgmental about certain patterns of thought, because they can be understood as good functioning of a system rather than as intrinsically problematic
- Michael Ashcroft > "thinking isn't bad, but going thinky, ie losing track of the rest of the world to have a thought, is bad"
August 1st, 2021
What are the components or dimensions required for collab… › current/new model as of sometime in 2021
- these two mindsets described by Arbinger Institute might as well just be pointing at the two hemispheres as basic modes of attending
- the piece missing here is that the red mindset shown above is actually entirely appropriate as a way to relate to inanimate objects! it's just unworkable as a way to relate to people or the living world
- the left hemisphere isn't wrong or intrinsically an obstacle, it's just not its job to relate to people (including parts of oneself!)
- so then we might ask "what sorts of exercises might train this aspect, separate from everything else?"
- and it seems that one of the simplest things is going to be something like Alexander Technique, which is a practice for rebalancing the relationship between the brain hemispheres, by practising expanding awareness in each moment (ie about every 3s)
- this also allows inhibiting patterns without suppressing them
thinking that rejects other thinking
- this whole thing undoubtedly relates to brain hemispheres
April 21st, 2021
- definitely relevant to brain hemispheres
- > For reasons we’ll be discussing in a later post, rationalism suffers from an innate and lethal tendency to lose track of the difference between the abstractions that it contemplates and the universe that those abstractions are meant to represent. That confusion between representation and reality tends to increase over time as the rationalist movement defines its view of existence with more and more precision. It’s as simple as it is inevitable: the tighter the rationalist clenches his fist, if you will, the more of the universe of possible human experience slips through his fingers.
- > Sooner or later, the things that have been excluded from the world by any given rationalist system will include things that can’t be ignored without putting the survival of the civilization at risk, and when those things are ignored anyway, as they normally are, the consequences are all too familiar from the historical record. That’s why rationalist movements in their final years, when it finally becomes impossible to ignore those things any longer, always end up making peace with the realms of magic, myth, and religion they‘ve previously spent so many years and so much effort denouncing. To put the same thing another way, that’s why the magic or the esoteric religion of a waning civilization ends up absorbing the heritage of that civilization’s broken-down rationalism, repurposing it to cope with the unmet needs of its time, and placing it in a context of practice that keeps it from blinding itself with its own abstractions quite so readily as when it’s given free rein.
- > Magic, as I suggested in last month’s post, is the reset button for minds that have allowed their worlds, their representations, to get out of sync with the reality those representations are meant to describe. In all ages, that’s highly useful for individuals; at certain times, which recur with remarkable predictability in the lives of civilizations, that’s necessary for entire societies. We live in such a time, in case you haven’t noticed.
March 19th, 2021
- interesting brain hemispheres thing about color recognition being speeded/slowed by category boundaries in the right visual field but not in the left
March 9th, 2021
- connects to both to brain hemispheres / McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model and to Coherence Therapy & Unlocking the Emotional Brain
- it basically describes the functional application of the very same rapid-response brain systems that cause trauma flashbacks / dream mashups
December 25th, 2020
- Found this post of David MacIver's, where he points at "Two Types of Viewpoint" that seem to map onto the left & right brain hemispheres - Hemispheres Linkpost
two directions of abstraction
- The brain hemispheres, as far as I can tell, have two different kinds of abstraction.
September 23rd, 2020
- Michael "Valentine" Smith reminded me of this old LW post about brain hemispheres
- (it summarizes Ramachandran's model, which is less potent than McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model)