Perhaps you got tired of hearing all the fuss about the Left Brain and Right Brain Thinking. But If you know that those very two hemispheres are the origins of almost everything in this world you will appreciate study them more.
L-Directed Thinking is the process that is done by the left hemisphere of the brain. Here goes the analysis, sequenced logic, 1+1=2 like of logic, computation of complex formulas etc. Basically computers are great at stuff like this.
For example playing chess is an L-Directed thinking approach, You can NEVER beat a computer at Chess, because basically your Left Brain is not as fast as a computer, in performing sequenced steps. The computer will basically calculate ALL your possible moves and encounter it easily.
Garry Kasparov the Chess Champion beat the first computer at Chess, and the second one, but he couldn't beat the third.
Now, If you bring a violent picture and you feed it to a Cloud of computers in order to detect the type of this picture; A 6 years old kid can instantly know that this picture is violent in less than a second where the Cloud can report it after days and most of the time the result is wrong.
This is the power of the R-Directed Thinking which cannot be replicated by a computer yet. So the Right Brain is responsible for emotions, parallel, pattern detection. Whereas you can replace a human left Brain with a Machine.
When you look at someones face, you don't see her nose first, then her eyes, then her lips. You see her face as a whole, in parrallel. Thats the power of the R-Directed thinking.
Imagine your wife is cooking dinner. She asked you to bring some stuff from the store. You forget an important stuff. The wife looks at you and say, "I'm going to the store". Now your left brain will know that this woman in front of you aka your wife, is going to the store. But your right brain will detect that she is angry because you didn't bring the missing ingredient. No Computer can do that.
In another post I will explain the power of the R-Directed thinking and why the R-Directed thinkers will lead the world as Dan Pink explains in his book a Whole new Mind. This post is an inspiration by his book.
You also know that the hemisphere of the brain controls the opposite sided limbs? So that only left-handed people are in their right mind! [disclosure: I'm left-handed] Seriously, interesting study here in Cambridge suggests we only read the first and last words of a sentence, or letters of a word: it's a shorthand only our right brain can do in c/w left brain - pattern recognition computer knowledge experts would love to reproduce.
ReplyDelete(cannot post the link here, will tweet it 2u)
Great study of cambriedge university, seen it some where
ReplyDeleteYes the right control the left and vise versa
and also from what i read the right brain can see things at parallel simultansouly .. thats why we can read missed up words without any problem..
!
you mean this thing?
ReplyDelete"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe."