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Post 3: The Future Belongs to the Mind, But, Which Mind?

"It seems to me that in the question of truth and beauty one finds what is really the deepest root of the relationship between science and art." - David Bohm, quantum physicist

In the previous post dated March 25, 2019, where we asked you: 1. Do you think you can just live with one mind only, the left mind (left-brainers) or the right mind (right-brainers)?   2. And where does the third mind come from?  

Read the extract below to understand that our human brain is based on a dualistic model. Note that Roger Sperry won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine showing that we have two different functioning minds, the left and the right, in one whole brain.

Extract

"The right brain (in right-handers) best processes information that is for the most part emotional and spatial. The left brain (in right-handers) processes information that is primarily rule-driven and temporal. Similar to the Chinese yin/yang symbol, each major side contains within its core a small essence of its opposite.

When discussing the brain, distinctions are never black and white. There is considerable crossover in function. Not all language centers are in the left brain, and not all spatial judgments are processed in the right brain. Nevertheless, our present and past can be better understood if we examine human history using this dualistic model.

The right- and left-brain functions are commonly associated with the dualities of masculine/feminine, active/passive, particular/general, focused/holistic, and rational/intuitive. The arrangement of a masculine side of the brain and a feminine side promotes a psychic hermaphroditism in both men and women, making the human sexes unlike any other species. Every man has an animus and an anima just as every woman has an anima and an animus." - extracted from Leonardo's Brain by Leonard Shlain.

Answer to the Above Two Questions

Basically, each half of the brain holds up half the sky. Hence, to be literate in just one of the two minds we are born with, you are using half of your potential by leaving the other half of the brain's literacy to chance.

For the left-brainers or the right-brainers, you are only riding on half of your potential because each half offers you different functions (dualistic).

The Third Mind

It is only when you have literacy in both halves of your brain then the two minds can come together to form a distinct new mind. This is the third mind.

WE ARE OUR WHOLE BRAIN

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The Future Belongs to the Mind, But, Which Mind

THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE THIRD MIND

From these two videos, Video 1 of 2: My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor and Video 2: Miserable & Magical: A Graduation Speech for Paradoxical Times by Nipun Mehta, they clearly show that we are born with two different functioning minds in our brain.

We started off with "The future belongs to the mind, but, which mind? The future belongs to the third mind".

Do you think you can just live with one mind only, the left mind (left-brainers) or the right mind (right-brainers)?

And where does the third mind come from?

Share with us your comments.

Video 1: My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, would have shown you that we are born with two different functioning minds, the left mind and the right mind, in our brain. The left brain is dependent on written language and the right is dependent on visual language. Science is in the left brain and art is in the right brain.

Video 2: Miserable & Magical: A Graduation Speech for Paradoxical Times by Nipun Mehta would have touched our hearts. This ability to feel for others (empathy) comes from your right brain.

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The Future Belongs to the Mind, But, Which Mind?

THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE THIRD MIND

Please watch these two videos

Video 1: My Stroke of Insight

Video 2:  Miserable & Magical: A Graduation Speech for Paradoxical Times

Share with us your thoughts and comments on why the third mind is the mind of the future.