Damit sich das ethische Ich entwickeln kann, muss der präfrontale Kortex entsprechend ausgebildet sein.

Hinweis betreffend des Kontroll-Ichs

Anmerkung: Es sind nicht "die vielen Zellen, die entscheiden". Entscheidung ist ein Feldeffekt der vorhandenen Bewusstseinsebene.

• People (expressing the old view) think the left hemisphere is a bit dull, but it's terribly reliable, and it's down-to-earth, and it doesn't get emotional.
     1): it is not down-to-earth, it's in a fantasy world.
     2) It is not reliable.
  The right hemisphere is far more sophisticated at making judgments, much more reliable. The left hemisphere, which tends to jump to conclusions, is open to bias. And in terms of emotion the left hemisphere is far from devoid of emotion. The most lateralized of all emotions is anger, and it lateralizes to the left hemisphere. When people are experiencing
  anger there is a great increase in activity in the left hemisphere.
  The left hemisphere is bright enough, but not very bright. It doesn't really see that there are things that it doesn't know.
  It's so hermetic. Its world is so self-contained and consistent and self-referential that it doesn't feel the need of anything
  else because it's not sensing that there's something bigger.
  The right hemisphere sees what is implicit, what is going on not in the foreground but in the in the background, in the
  context. Video interview with Iain McGilchrist, M.D. iainmcgilchrist.com (*1953) British psychiatrist, physician, literary scholar, New College, Oxford, neuroimaging researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writer, Certainty and flow, Iain McGilchrist (part 1 of 2), presented by the British platform Rebel Wisdom, host and founder David Fuller, British journalist, filmmaker, YouTube film, minute 20:57, 21:50, 30:39, 30:17, 37:29 minutes duration, posted 17. December 2018

• Inevitably if you put power in the hands of people who have no wisdom this is a formula for disaster.  Minute 00:24
• The knowledge that the right hemisphere has is not easily expressible. The left hemisphere's take is an exclusive one; 'either' this is right 'or' that is right, and therefore what I know excludes what you know. It doesn't see things contextually, it doesn't see individuals, it's not prepared to listen to another point of view, whereas the right hemisphere's take is a 'both and' take, that there's a room for what the left hemisphere does, but there's also a point in synthesis and imagination.  Minute 01:40
• We need division and we need union. It's not just that union is marvelous, all is one, and that's the perfectly wise point of view. It's not that everything is separate and distinct anatomistic. We need to bring these two apparently opposite points of view together.  Minute 03:21

• There are no certainties to start from. They're intuited. You have to start from axioms.
  Reason is based in the intuition and it ends in intuition.
  Rationality begins with intuition in two ways.
  1. We can't rationally prove why reason is a helpful tool. We intuit it that it is a useful tool.
  2. When we begin reasoning we have to begin from quite a host of assumptions. Science officially claims to make no assumptions. In fact, it makes quite a few assumptions before it gets started. It has to. That's not a criticism. The system can't work without somewhere to start, because nothing can be supported on nothing. It has to be on something before it can get started.

• Rationality can be an important part of reason, but only part. Reason is about holding sometimes incompatable elements in balance, a right-hemisphere capacity which had been highly prized among the humanist scholars of the Renaissance. Rationality imposes an ‘either/or’ on life which is far from reasonable. Iain McGilchrist, M.D. iainmcgilchrist.com (*1953) British psychiatrist, physician, literary scholar, New College, Oxford, neuroimaging researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writer, The Master and His Emissary. The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, S. 331, Yale University Press Publication,
  30. October 2009, November 2010

• The divided nature of our reality has been a consistent observation since humanity has been sufficiently self-conscious to reflect on it. [...] When one puts that together with the fact that the brain is divided into two relatively independent chunks which just happen broadly to mirror the very dichotomies that are being pointed to – alienation versus engagement, abstraction versus incarnation, the categorical versus the unique, the general versus the particular, the part versus the whole, and so on – it seems like a metaphor that might have some literal truth. Iain McGilchrist, M.D. iainmcgilchrist.com (*1953) British psychiatrist, physician, literary scholar, New College, Oxford, neuroimaging researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writer, The Master and His Emissary. The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, S. 461-462, Yale University Press Publication, 30. October 2009, November 2010

• [O]ver the past 2,500 years, there has been a kind of battle going on in our brains, the result of which has been, despite swings of the pendulum, an ever greater reliance on the left hemisphere. Iain McGilchrist, M.D. iainmcgilchrist.com (*1953) British psychiatrist, physician, literary scholar, New College, Oxford, neuroimaging researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writer, The Battle of the Brain, presented by the international daily newspaper The Wall Street Journal, 2. January 2010

• In 1955 in the U.S., 44% of all workers enjoyed their working hours more than anything else they did; by 1999 only 16% did, according to Gallup poll data. What makes us happy is not wealth but the reciprocal relationship between ourselves and one another, ourselves and the world. This is something the right hemisphere alone understands, since it is the ground of empathy and interconnectedness, where the left hemisphere is concerned with manipulation and sees the world atomistically. Iain McGilchrist, M.D. iainmcgilchrist.com (*1953) British psychiatrist, physician, literary scholar, New College, Oxford, neuroimaging researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writer, The Battle of the Brain, presented by the international
  daily newspaper The Wall Street Journal, 2. January 2010

• There is, in summary, then, a force for individuation (left hemisphere) and a force for coherence (right hemisphere): but, where the whole is not the same as the sum of its parts, the force for individuation exists within and is subject to the force of coherence. In this sense the 'givens' of the left hemisphere need to be once again 'given up' to be reunified through the operations of the right hemisphere. [...] [T]he rational workings of the left hemisphere [...] should be subject to the intuitive wisdom of
  the right hemisphere. Iain McGilchrist, M.D. iainmcgilchrist.com (*1953) British psychiatrist, physician, literary scholar, New Col-
  lege, Oxford, neuroimaging researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writer, The Master and His Emissary. The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, S. 203, Yale University Press Publication, 30. October 2009, November 2010, paperback issue,
  6. August 2012

• Metaphoric thinking is fundamental to our understanding of the world, because it is the only way in which understanding can reach outside the system of signs to life itself. It is what links language to life. Iain McGilchrist, M.D. iainmcgilchrist.com (*1953) British psychiatrist, physician, literary scholar, New College, Oxford, neuroimaging researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writer, The Master and His Emissary. The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, S. 115, Yale University Press Publication, 30. October 2009, November 2010, paperback issue, 6. August 2012

• Certainty is the greatest of all illusions. Whatever kind of fundamentalism it may underwrite, that of religion or of science, it is what the ancients meant by hubris. The only certainty, it seems to me, is that those who believe they are certainly right are certainly wrong. Iain McGilchrist, M.D. iainmcgilchrist.com (*1953) British psychiatrist, physician, literary scholar, New College, Oxford, neuroimaging researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writer, The Master and His Emissary. The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, Yale University Press Publication, 30. October 2009, November 2010, paperback issue,
  6. August 2012

• The right hemisphere is able to see [...] that not everything may be consistent, that may be inconsistencies are built into the universe, that something and its opposite may be true [...] but we want to have a model where everything is consistent.
  Wisdom is being able to synthesize things that look contradictory. [...]
  The difficulty is that almost everything that we really value can't be gone straightforward and got. [...]
  The [enlightenment culture] idea that you can pursue happiness – nothing is further from the truth. The more you pursue it the harder it is to find. Mini documentary featuring Iain McGilchrist, M.D. iainmcgilchrist.com (*1953) British psychiatrist, physician, literary scholar, New College, Oxford, neuroimaging researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writer, 'Making Sense' Part 1, Dr Iain McGilchrist, produced by Gandy Dancer Films, directed by Jonathan Guilbert, YouTube film, minute 3:10, minute 5:48, 6:26 minutes duration, posted 16. October 2017

• The left (brain) hemisphere manipulates the world,
  the right hemisphere understands the world.
  Trailer of the crowdfunded documentary featuring Iain McGilchrist, M.D. iainmcgilchrist.com (*1953) British psychiatrist, physician, literary scholar, New College, Oxford, neuroimaging researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writer, Divided Brain Trailer, project by Divided Brain Media, Toronto Canada, producer Vanessa Dylyn, director Manfred Becker, YouTube film, 5:19 minutes duration, posted 25. April 2017

Other authors commenting on the "left/right brain" dichotomy or conflict

• [Paraphrased] The very attempt to divide the One substance (still magnetic light), gives the appearance of, but does not make two substances. It only develops two equal states of motion, which Man calls 'forces'. It but creates two illusions. Just so with positive electricity and negative electricity. They are not two forces. They are but aspects of One force attempting to separate, each by its own opposite method, thus becoming two forces. They never succeed in doing so. Each is charged with the other, permeated more or less, in accord with its periodicity. Walter Russell (1871-1963) US American polymath, natural philosopher, mystic, architect, painter, sculptor, builder, author (unified theory in physics and cosmogony), The Universal One, S. 75-81, University of Science and Philosophy, June 1974

• There are two kinds of religion in this world: one having a creator god, and the other not recognizing a creator of this reality. H.H. 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (*1935) Tibetan monk, leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1989, Buddhist initiation ceremony in India, referenced in: note The Relevance of Religion in Modern Times, undated

• The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not – which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, Psychology and Alchemy – Collected Works, Volume 12, 1944, S. 51, Routledge, London, 2nd edition 1968

• Women [daughters of the moons] are powerful […] because of the moons. The evidence is a direct track between the menstrua and right-brain function. […]
  The Goddess has three faces, three stages: Maiden ☯ Matron and ☯ Crone. And the dividing lines are all about the menstrua. Maiden to puberty, matron to the end of menstruation, crone afterwards.
  The holiest women are the crones. Having a croning ceremony is very important to the safety of this world. A ceremony in which women are introduced to the power that has matured in them through a lifetime and asked to join together to make decisions for the nation.
  Get rid of all these men arguing, and majority rules, and tyranny of majority. Forget that. The only way true government can make a decision is unanimously. And unanimity is the function of right brain joining at which postmenstrual women are particularly adept.
  The other thing about postpostmenstrual women is that they become androhermaphrogenous in which they balance the male and female functions in themselves, almost automatically. When the ladies get past the menstruation time it gets to be normative. And it is in that androhermaphrogenous state of right-brain activity that the truth of a good government forever rests. Governments are there to make decisions that effect the world. I believe that only a grandmother council should be trusted with that, only a grandmother council. Audio presentation by Father Charles L. Moore (1927-2007) US American Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, scholar, historian, district attorney, spiritual teacher, modern mystic, MP3, part 2 of 2, March 2003, presented by the US American web radio station KKUP, program Vibrational Voyage, host Anthony J. McGettigan, ~50 minutes duration, posted March 1st, 2011

• In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) US American longshoreman philosopher, social writer, cited in: Roland S. Barth, Learning By Heart, S. 28, Jossey-Bass, 10. February 2004

• Consciousness is the ground of all being. And then you have to realize that it's absolute and therefore no perfect definition is ever possible. So whatever people say about consciousness is okay, provided one caveat, which is that one should recognize one fundamental aspect of consciousness because this is where consciousness and materialism become different.
  • In materialism, there are only objects.
  • In consciousness, there is both subject and object. That split is most important to recognize.

• I maintain that every man and woman has a feminine side and a masculine side to their personality, to their psyche, to their mind. I believe that the masculine side of both men and women is primarily their left hemisphere and the feminine side of both men and women is primarily their right hemisphere. Video TV interview with Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, Imagery and the Alphabet, excerpted from a 1 hour DVD, presented by the US American independent public television series Thinking Allowed (PBS) (1988-2002), host Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D. (*1946) US American clinical psychologist, director of the Intuition Network, radio and television interviewer, author, YouTube film, minute 4:04, 7:00 minutes duration, posted 31. August 2010

• [Paraphrased] The left-right-brained way to get to the truth [as applied by Socrates] is to look somebody in the eye and debate one on one (not by dealing with one who resorts to written notes).

• Buddha, Socrates, and Jesus delivered feminine right-brained oral teachings. Video presentation by Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet vs. The Goddess, sponsored by the Pepperdine University, Malibu California, The Distinguished Lecture Series, November 2006, YouTube film, minute 37:43, 1:15:14 duration, posted 1. November 2012

• The recurring pattern of the classical era, medieval era, Renaissance and modern times is:
  First the visionary artist sees the world in a new way followed by a new paradigmal discovery of a revolutionary physicist. […]
  The shift in science which has nothing to do with the discoveries that they're making but has to do with the mental configuration of the way men and women have to think about science is promoting and elevating the value of the feminine over the value of the masculine. And this trend will continue. Of course this isn't going to occur over night. We're still living in a world that is fairly patriarchal and misogynist but it's changing. Men are embracing the ecology movement, and men are better husbands and fathers today than they were a hundred years ago. Video presentation by Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time & Light, presented by the Tiffany Shlain & Let It Ripple Film Studio, YouTube film, minute 52:39, 54:04 minutes duration, posted 1. November 2012

• Johnny couldn't read and a previously unrecognized affliction called dyslexia (nonexis-
  tent in ideographic China) broke out at alarming rates in classrooms all across Euro-
  centric television land. Dyslexic children, predominantly male (9:1), have difficulty de-
  ciphering the alphabet. One credible theory proposes that it is due to a failure of hemi-
  spheric dominance. Ninety percent of the language centers traditionally reside in the left hemisphere of right-handed people. In the right-handed dyslexic, the distri-
  bution of language centers may be more on the order of 80/20 or 70/30. Although we cannot be sure that dyslexia was
  not always among us, it seems to have erupted at the very moment that an entire generation was devaluing the left he-
  mispheric mode of knowing. Perhaps television is the agent equilibrating the human brain's two differing modes
  of perception.
  The very concept of "brain dominance" is presently under scrutiny, as many dyslexics are talented artists, architects, musicians, composers, dancers, and surgeons. The idea that logical, linear thinking is better than intuition and holi-
  stic perception was a script written by left-brainers in the first place. Our culture has classified dyslexia as a disabili-
  ty. But as culture becomes more comfortable with its reliance on images, it may turn out that dyslexia will be reasses-
  sed as another of the many harbingers that announced the arrival of the Iconic Revolution.
  Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet Versus The Goddess. The Conflict Between World and Image, chapter
  35, Penguin (Non-Classics), 1. September 1999

• The brain accounts for only 2 percent of the body's volume, yet consumes 20 percent of the body's energy. A pearly gray, gelatinous, three-pound universe, this exceptional organ can map parsecs and plot the whereabouts of distant galaxies measured in quintillions of light-years. The brain accomplishes this magic trick without ever having to leave its ensorcelled ovoid cranial shell. From minuscule-wattage electrical currents crisscrossing and ricocheting within its walls, the brain can reconstruct a detailed diorama of how it imagines the Earth appeared four billion years ago. It can generate poetry so achingly beautiful that readers weep, hatred so intense that otherwise rational people revel in the torture of others, and love so oceanic that entwined lovers lose the boundaries of their physical beings. Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, cited in: Article Leonardo's Brain: What a Posthumous Brain Scan Six Centuries Later Reveals about the Source of Da Vinci’s Creativity, presented by the free weekly digest Brain Pickings, host Maria Popova (*1984) Bulgarian critic, blogger, writer,
  17. November 2014

• The right brain is better than the left in perceiving space and making judgments as to balance, harmony, and the composition of gestalts, from which we make aesthetic distinctions between ugly and beautiful. Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. The Conflict Between Word and Image, Alphabetvsgoddess.com, Penguin,
  1. September 1999

• This dichotomy between the spirits of Apollo and Dionysus suggests that the Greeks allegorically understood the different functions between the right and left brain. […]
  Leonardo is both an extraordinary left-brained academician obsessed with portraying perspective correctly and an impish right-brained trickster who takes delight in fooling the viewer with perspectivist sleights of hand. Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, Leonardo's Brain. Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius, Lyons Press, 1st Kindle edition 21. October 2014

• The dignity movement can be seen as nobodies' liberation. Robert Fuller, Ph.D., US American physicist, president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity researcher, author, The Dignity Revolution, UC-Berkeley, presented by TEDx Berkeley Talks, aired 19. February 2011, YouTube film, 19:41 minutes duration, posted 23. March 2011

• After a feisty competitive billion-year youth, the nucleated microbial cells built multi-celled creatures as cooperatives in the last quarter of evolution. It is cheaper to feed your enemies than to kill them. […]
  The sun is setting on the Age of Empire (competition mode) and rising on the Age of Global Family (cooperation mode).
  Yang: Youthful competition, control/order, mine/yours, monoculture, fear in scarcity
  Yin: Mature cooperation, messiness/mystery, we/ours, diversity/creativity, love in abundance
  Video presentation by Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. (*1950) Greek-American post-Darwinian creationist evolutionary biologist, pastist/futurist, promoter of anthropomorphism over mechanomorphism, business consultant, former UN consultant, East and West in our Global Family, presented by TEDx Marrakesh Talks, YouTube film, minute 10:33 and minute 15:43, 19:14 minutes duration, posted
  13. October 2011

Yahweh is a two-faced morally schizophrenic, psychopathic god.
Violent elitist-hierarchical either-or left-brained Yahwist systems kept humanity divided.

• In the character of Yahweh by any objective moral evaluations you have a psychopathic, genocidal, murderous, ma-
  nipulative, emotionally abusive character claiming – according to theological traditions – to be God. And this is the problem. […] No amount of theological jugglery will change the fact that you're dealing with a real moral ambiguity with
  this particular character. If we were to take the same actions and ascribe them to a human being then what we're dealing with is a character on the order of a Hitler, a Stalin, or a chairman Mao. We're dealing with a real murderous character. […]
  The cultural effect of the introduction of this [Yahwist] religion in ancient times is that it introduced a cultural schism. Yahwism is defining itself in opposition to [nature religions and the right-brained perennial traditions]. Yahwism is
  a conceptional and an immoral revolution. And like all revolutions it has a founding moment in violence, here of course the exodus. It fills all the bills of revolutionary violent movements. The bottom line is it's a grab for power. […]
  1. You enshrine a text. Then the text literally becomes your God.
  2. You enshrine a system of interpretation and therefore you elevate to positions of authority a clerical [oligarchic] elite that does the interpreting.
  3. Within the psychology of any individual […] within one of those three Yahwisms [Judaism, Christianity, Islam] it introduces the idea that any other human being therefore is looked at in purely mechanistic terms. They are viewed either as a potential convert to the system or as a potential enemy.

• The winners in this new world are those who build very large numbers of rich flows of tacit knowledge riding on the rails of trust based relationships.
  In this new world it's about relationships not transactions. It's about the notion of these relationships being long-term sustained relationships where the kind of communication that occurs in that relationship is not around data sets and graphs of charts of data. It's around stories, […] images, visual kinds of communication.
  If you're in the masculine archetype of projecting a strong [lonesome rider] image at all times you will not be successful in building trust. You have to be willing to express vulnerability. I think it raises a very different kind of archetype that's going to be required for success in this new world.
  The future belongs to the feminine archetype not the masculine archetype. And those of us who adopt the feminine arche-
  type, male or female, are going to be the ones to create wealth and enjoy the enormous success ahead. Video presentation by John Hagel III, US American consultant, co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, speaker and author on the intersection of business strategy and information technology, The Big Shift: Challenge and Opportunity for Women, presented by TEDx Talks, TEDxBayArea, YouTube film, 12:59 minutes duration, minutes 8:25, 9:20, 10:43 and 12:23, posted 9. December 2010

• God may be in the details but the Goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
  Gloria Steinem gloriasteinem.com (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's movement, visionary and political ac-
  tivist, founder and editor of the feminist magazine Ms., journalist, writer, Moving Beyond Words. Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles. Breaking the Boundries of Gender, Touchstone, 1. February 1995

• Hierarchy [left brain] is based on patriarchy. Patriarchy doesn't work anywhere anymore.
  Video commencement speech by Gloria Steinem gloriasteinem.com (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's movement, visionary and political activist, founder and editor of the feminist magazine Ms., journalist, writer, Gloria Steinem: The F Word: Feminism Today, sponsored by Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, 22. March 2013, YouTube film, minute 18:14,
  1:42:12 duration, posted 22. April 2013

• We're still living in an 'either-or' culture [left brain], not in an 'and' culture. We're still ranking instead of linking. We still have a hierarchical view of life instead of a circle. And actually for most of human history we've lived the other way. It's been about linking, not ranking. The circle was the paradigm of society.
  Video TV interview with Gloria Steinem gloriasteinem.com (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's movement, visionary and political activist, founder and editor of the feminist magazine Ms., journalist, writer, @katiecouric: A Woman's World?, presented by the US American TV station CBS News, host Katie Couric (*1957) US American talk show host, anchor journalist,
  author, YouTube film, minute 37:29, posted 22. June 2010

• I am talking about the divisions of human beings into the cults of masculinity and femininity, into false divisions
  [of the left brain] that conceal both our shared humanity and our individual uniqueness. We are trained into this division very young, usually in our own families, and it normalizes later divisions into
  ➤ leader and led,
  ➤ subject and object,
  ➤ rich and poor,
  ➤ even conquerer and conquered.

• It is as if we had natural stages of
  1. dependence as children [left brain],
  2. independence as young people [left brain],
  3. interdependence [right brain] as we grow wiser.

• Quintessentially driven by the right hemisphere are the 'Seven L's': Language, Laudation, Lying, Laughter, Lachrymation, Lyric, Love. Michael R. Trimble, M.D. Ph.D., British professor of behavioural neurology, psychiatrist, author, The Soul in the Brain. The Cerebral Basis of Language, Art, and Belief, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st edition 16. April 2007

• We must once again accept and harmonize the perceptual biases of both (the left and right brain) and understand that for thousands of years the left hemisphere has suppressed the qualitative judgment of the right, and the human personality has suffered for it. Bruce R. Powers, US American educator, consultant, writer, The Global Village. Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century (Communication and Society), Oxford University Press, NYC, United States, reprint edition 17. September 1992

• Life as manifested to us is a function of the asymmetry of the universe [...] I can even imagine that all living species are primordially, in their structure, in their external forms, functions of cosmic asymmetry. ⚡ Louis Pasteur [Father of microbiology] (1822-1895) French chemist, physician, microbiologist, cited in: Elliot Murphy, On the Mind and Freedom, S. 152, Lulu, London, 2011

• René Descartes was very, very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong. Lorimer Moseley, Ph.D., Australian professor of neuroscience, University of South Australia, pain researcher, International Association for the Study of Pain, cited in: removed article The Difference Between Injury and Pain, presented by the publication Absolute Health Performance, osteopath Matt, 26. October 2020

• Plato, long before neuroscience, spoke of the struggle in the soul between Reason, Appetite and Temperament. This, neurologically speaking, has turned out to be the struggle between the brain's upper and lower regions. It's so last century. The new story is the battle between the brain's hemispheres. 'The left hemisphere is competitive, and its concern, its prime motivation is power,' McGilchrist writes. The right, in contrast, is personal, empathetic and 'primary', experiencing things in the lovey-dovey way we did in the old days when we sat around campfires singing Kumbaya. (Music, predictably, is so right brain). […] The fact is, hemispheric differences are not well understood. Neither are patterns over 2,500 years of western history. Trying to explain the ill-understood latter with a caricature of the former does little to illuminate either. […] McGilchrist's favourite philosopher is Martin Heidegger, who famously said, 'Nothing naughts.' That would have been a fitting title for this book. Critique by Owen Flanagan, Ph.D. (*1949) US American professor of philosophy and neurobiology, Duke University, author, The vast left-brain conspiracy, presented by the CultureLab blog by New Scientist, 26 November 2009

• Richard Davidson (director of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin) presented information about his study with Buddhist monks. He found you can startle a Buddhist monk, and he won't show the startle response, and that was unimaginable. The startle response is more like a reflex – it goes into the brain stem. But with the monks, he reported, there was no facial response, no heart-rate response. Dacher Keltner, Ph.D. (*1962) US American professor of psychology, University of California, Berkeley, altruism researcher, director of the Greater Good Science Center, author, cited in: article A meeting of the minds: Buddhists and behavioral scientists compare notes on the workings of the mind,
  presented by the publication UC Berkeley News, Carol Hyman, Public Affairs, 3. November 2003

• The brain is not static. It is meant to change. Richard Davidson, Ph.D. (*1951) US American Vilas professor of psychology and psychiatry, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin-Madison, named among the 100 most influential people by TIME in 2006, cited in: article Richie Davidson is Stalking the Meditating Brain, presented by the bimonthly US American magazine Mindful, 17. June 2014

• [*] [O]ver the past 2,500 years, there has been a kind of battle going on in our brains, the result of which has been, despite swings of the pendulum, an ever greater reliance on the left hemisphere.
  Iain McGilchrist, M.D. (*1953), The Battle of the Brain, presented by the international daily newspaper The Wall Street Journal, 2. January 2010

• With Parmenides, and still more with Plato, philosophy shifted from a respect for the hidden and implicit to an emphasis
  on what can be made explicit alone. The previously acknowledged idea that opposites can agree became anathema.
  Iain McGilchrist, M.D. (*1953), The Battle of the Brain, presented by the international daily newspaper The Wall Street Journal,
  2. January 2010

Idealistic philosopher Isaiah Berlin listed the three basic tenets of scientific truth finding in the Age of Enlightenment:

• 1. "All genuine questions must have one true answer and one only."
  2. "There must be a dependable path toward the discovery of these truths."
  3. "The true answers, when found, must necessarily be compatible with one another and form a single whole."
  Article by Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas, lecturer, essayist, The Pursuit of the Ideal, cited in: On the Pursuit of the Ideal, presented by the US American semi-monthly magazine The New York Review of Books, volume 35, issue 4, 17. March 1988, Claude Galipeau, Isaiah Berlin's Liberalism, S. 51, Oxford University
  Press, 24. February 1994, The Proper Study of Mankind. An Anthology of Essays, S. 5, Farrar Straus & Giroux, paperback,
  31. December 1998

• The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution were products of the left hemisphere in keeping with its competitive, confident manner, and its belief in its unassailable rightness – in a manner which is absolute and intolerant and sweeps away opposition. It was man's most brazen attempt for power over the natural world.
  Iain McGilchrist, M.D. iainmcgilchrist.com (*1953) British psychiatrist, physician, literary scholar, New College, Oxford, neuro-
  imaging researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writer, The Master and His Emissary. The Divided Brain and the Making
  of the Western World, S. 386, Yale University Press Publication, 30. October 2009

• Modern art rejects the natural world for one of fantasy, what the piece tells you, or anger at society.
  Iain McGilchrist, M.D. (*1953), The Master and His Emissary. The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, S. 409,
  Yale University Press Publication, 30. October 2009

• [N]one of these things seem to me to bear any scrutiny when you look at life. And these things were known in other
  eras, certainly known in the Renaissance. And it has something to do with the loss of [soul] embodiment. It's this
  cerebralisation and abstraction that went on and is still the key note, I'm afraid, in an awful lot of Western philosophy
  such as, in my view, the entirely sterile Anglo-American analytic tradition.
  Iain McGilchrist, M.D. (*1953), The Triumph of the Left Brain?, presented by berfrois, 7. June 2012
  • Wenn man das Leben in Betracht zieht, scheint mir keine der [aufgezählten] [Thanatos]Erscheinungen einer
    genauen Prüfung standzuhalten. In anderen Epochen waren diese Tendenzen bekannt, ganz sicher in der Renais-
    sance (1420-1600). Diese Entwicklung hat etwas mit dem Verlust der Verkörperung [der Seele] zu tun. Diese
    [linkshirnige] Zerebralisierung [Verdinglichung] und Abstraktion setzte sich fort und bestimmt immer noch, wie
    ich befürchte, weitgehend den Grundtenor der westlichen Philosophie – wie beispielsweise die meiner Meinung
    nach völlig sterile anglo-amerikanische analytische Tradition.
    Dr. med. Iain McGilchrist (*1953), The Triumph of the Left Brain?, vorgestellt von berfrois, 7. Juni 2012

Leonard Shlain, M.D. (1937-2009) was a US American polymath, researcher, chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery at the UC San Francisco and writer. An avid reader and storyteller, he was able to keep many stories and facts which he had picked up in mind. He could make sense out of them by sequencing them anew.

Corpus callosum from above

Attempting to understand the right brain/left brain dichotomy, he found that the most creative people are found among: wo-men, homosexuals, bald-headed men in early age, color-blinds and lefthanded ones.

In various societies the population consists of
  ⚑ about 51% women and
  ⚑ 8-11% are homosexuals, lefthanders, young bald men and color-blind men.
Apparently these more rare conditions result in a much broader corpus callo-
sum, the bridge between both hemispheres of their brains. The brain halves of women, gays, bald men, lefthanders, and color-blind are more closely interlaced than those of heterosexual, righthanded, haired men.

Assymmetries in male/female biology – availing an advantage in hunting

• 8% of men are gay. – 5% of women are lesbian.
• 8% of men are left-handed. – 5% of women are left-handed.
• 8% of men are color-blind. – No woman is color-blind.
• 8% of men are bald headed in their prime.¹² – No woman is bald headed.

Humans were hunters and gatherers for 99% of their their metahistorical existence. The human species exhibit the most expressive homosexuality among all species. Why? To provide meat to the
tribe, especially to iron deficient women.

Differing language skills between men and women
With women in general (incl. lesbians), lefties, color-blind, bald headed men, gays, and memory superbrains the distribution of language skills is much less one-sided. They have a bigger corpus callosum which serves them to communicate their emotions – stored in the right brain and mostly translated and expressed via the left brain – in a more explicit way.

During infancy girls develop first the left hemisphere which is the brain's language center for most people whereas the order is reversed for boys which allows them to develop their spatial ability.

Girls talk earlier than boys, have a larger pre-school vocabulary, and form more complex sentences. In school, they are one to one-and-a-half years ahead of boys in reading and writing, verbal memory and fluency, and spelling. Boys are twice as likely to have a language or reading problem and three to four times more likely to stutter. On average, girls utter two to three times more words per day than boys and speak faster (twice as many words per minute).

Human brain

Musical abilities reside predominantly in the right hemisphere of the brain. The right parietal lobe and the right frontal lobe light up with trained musicians who are able to play music by ear. When a musician has learned how to write and to read music his right and left brains light up. The emotional aspects of music are received by the right brain, the tempo of music is perceived by the left brain.

Dyslexic children are predominantly male. The ratio of dyslexia is 9 boys and 1 girl. Possibly due to a failure of hemispheric dominance they find it difficult to decipher the alphabet, a leftbrained activity. Traditionally, 90% of the language centers reside in the left hemisphere of right-handed people. In a right-handed dyslexic, the distribution of language centers is found to be 80/20 or 70/30. Dyslexia seems to have erupted with the introduction of the image-dominant TV-set which enabled an entire generation to devalue the left hemispheric mode of knowing. Television may well be the agent of equilibrating the human brain's two differing modes of perception.
Many dyslexics are talented artists, architects, musicians, composers, dancers, healers, animal whisperer, and surgeons.

The ethical development happens in the frontal lobes within late puberty and continues during adulthood.

The Italian polymath (painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, writer) Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is likely the only human being in recorded history who could have won a Nobel Prize in both

1. the right-brain dominant discipline of art as well as in
2. the left-brain dominant field of science.

Shlain, inspired by his namesake, found that the ambi-brained balanced genius da Vinci was an illegitimate child, a vegetarian, a bilingual, a synaesthetic, a homosexual, and a composer of music. He was lefthanded, ambidextrous, mirror writing, and hook writing. He was neither bald
in young age nor color-blind or dyslexic.

Masculine creeds evolved with the written word in an alphabet. The first two Commandments of the Ten Commandments in
the Old Testament [first book issued 900 BC] reject the influence of the Goddess (right brain, Yin) and ban any form
of representative art. Women were forbidden to be priestesses in the 3rd millennium when the New Testament was transcribed.
Since the introduction of photography and TV [emitting/inducing alpha and theta brain waves] we witness the rise of the femi-
nine and the decline of the male (left brain, Yang) dominance after 5,000 years of patriarchy.

70,000 years ago when people migrated out of Africa women in the Northern hemisphere wanted iron to cover the enormous loss of iron during menstruation, birth, pregnancy and breast feeding. They loose 40 pints of blood over a lifetime during men-
sis. The fetus sucks out one 1/8 of iron from a woman. Out of 4000 species of mammals less than 100 experience menses,
31 of which are primates including the humans. [min. 18:30] It is considered "normal" that women have 15% less hemoglobin
and red cells than men.
Men started to hunt animals for women. Humans spent 99% of their experience as hunters/gatherers. (Tribes consisted of 150-225 persons (cp. Dunbar's number); hunting parties consisted of 9-12 men in their prime.)
The unparalleled female orgasm secured conception. The G-spot serves as the antedote to birth pain.

Youth, health and beauty [subcutaneous fat, pheromenes] most attracts men to women.