Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-26006155-20190714234022

Ambassador, there’s something I should clarify, that I’m not sure has been bluntly stated:

I’m not saying that The Creative Right Brain is superior to The Logical Left Brain. I’m saying they both work differently.

Without any grounding, the Right Brain flies off the handle into an infinite multiverse of possibilities, and gets completely lost in a stew of rainbow-colored madness.

On the flip side, left to its own devices, The Left Brain will stick entirely to things that are already 100% certain, and complacently take no risks to ever try to learn anything more, finding the very idea of questioning the rules of the game to be a threat to its own logic.

The Right Brain needs to be grounded enough by logic that it steers toward the possibilities that are best supported by what is currently known. A flashlight that can help it explore the dark.

And The Left Brain needs new ideas to shock it out of its familiar trains of thought, to see what can be learned if new assumptions are tried, and logic is applied to the new situation.

Whether it’s Art or Science, it’s always best if the Left Brain And Right Brain work together, checking and guiding each other, to better navigate to the islands of truth that are still undiscovered in the darkness.

This is why I take umbrage at people who discount The Right Brain. Like how Game Theory did in that animation where the Left Brain bashes The Right Brain, years ago.

Humans evolved both Left and Right brains for a reason. This was not random. Eons of evolution show its best to have both.

When someone suggests that it’s better for young theorists to cut out the entire right side of their brain—-to be better at their craft?—-it’s like I’m listening to an H.P. Lovecraft story, where Cthulhu is devising ways to make mankind more easily subjugated.