Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-32182236-20190721121658

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

One is great for art and fanfiction, and the other is great for theorizing. Can you tell which works for which?

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.

That's actually how I describe stories like Alice in Wonderland. Quite a popular story!

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.

...Isn't the goal of a skeptic to question everything? I don't see where you're coming from. Spock may be the popular form of logic, but he doesn't always represent the most logical choice. (Assuming everyone else acts logical is an added assumption. Not logical.)

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 that helps eliminate all the impossible "solutions". 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.

But it still needs to match what we observe in the game. Otherwise, we're not dealing with the game anymore-We're dealing with fanfiction.

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.

Art has no "truth". Art can be as far apart from logic as it wants. Art and Science are two completely separate things, and attempting to use Art as science is pseudoscience.

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.

I didn't see that animation. What was the context? Humans evolved both Left and Right brains for a reason. This was not random. Eons of evolution show its best to have both.

Well, of course-If you're being chased by a wild animal, you don't have time to think logically. You'll get eaten before you have a chance to find the solution. While I am searching for a stronger theory, it's taking far longer for me to craft my hypothesis than most others. That's the one weakness of the Left Brain-It is slow. 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.

They've probably seen one too many cases of Appeal to Emotion, and are done with people doing that, because Appeal to Emotion is a logical fallacy.