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Monday, September 20, 2004



Read this first: split brain experiments

Cognative psychology rocks. At last, everything makes sense. While researching split brain experiments, I recognized a similarity to one my own cognative anomalies - the "muse" that produces all of my creative ideas. You see, when come up with a good story, poem, etc, it pops into my head fully-born; I am compelled at that instict to write it down as fast as I can. (Seldom, if ever, do I sit down with the intention to write and produce anything of merit.) Funny thing is, when i look back over my good work, I don't recognize it. It's not something I would suspect myself capable of producing. Stranger yet, when I read it aloud to myself, I DO feel recognition and even an immense sense of satisfaction for having created it. How queer!

Theory: my right brain sits around all day coming up with witty little ditties and occasionally telegraphs them to my left brain (who posesses the lingual centers) in a frantic attempt to be heard and recognized. Yes I still have my corpus callosum, but it seems that each hemisphere is more independant than usual.


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