Two sides of the brain

[Conceptual]

I am going to propose another new theory. If we look at animals they are naturally intergrated with their environment. This suggests that they instinctively thought process more in the right or 3-D spatial side of the brain. Modern humans are more rational and we use the left side of the brain as our center area of consciousness. The left side of the brain is more 2-D or based on cause and effect.

 

Here is the theory. If human evolved from animals, it would follow that at one time we were all more centered in the right hemisphere. The evolution into the left hemisphere was probably a slow process and did not occur all at once. The observation that human culture had evolved such high level of sophication at the time of Rome and then regressed into the dark ages seems to imply that this was the transition point where the ego began to radially shift into the left hemisphere.

 

The time of Rome was a time of paradoxes of personality. These were very wild yet creative times, implicit of more right hemisphere useage or more unconsciousness. Rational thinking was thought to stem from the goddess rationalis. This seems to imply the left hemisphere being induced but not the steady state posiiton of the ego in the brain. Once the ego was permenently grounded in the left side during the dark ages, the ego had to reinvent itself, which took many centuries.

[BobbyJoeCool]

I am going to propose another new theory. If we look at animals they are naturally intergrated with their environment. This suggests that they instinctively thought process more in the right or 3-D spatial side of the brain. Modern humans are more rational and we use the left side of the brain as our center area of consciousness. The left side of the brain is more 2-D or based on cause and effect.

 

Here is the theory. If human evolved from animals' date=' it would follow that at one time we were all more centered in the right hemisphere. The evolution into the left hemisphere was probably a slow process and did not occur all at once. The observation that human culture had evolved such high level of sophication at the time of Rome and then regressed into the dark ages seems to imply that this was the transition point where the ego began to radially shift into the left hemisphere.

 

The time of Rome was a time of paradoxes of personality. These were very wild yet creative times, implicit of more right hemisphere useage or more unconsciousness. Rational thinking was thought to stem from the goddess rationalis. This seems to imply the left hemisphere being induced but not the steady state posiiton of the ego in the brain. Once the ego was permenently grounded in the left side during the dark ages, the ego had to reinvent itself, which took many centuries.[/quote']

 

And so was the time of Greece... The Romans were in fact jealous of the Greek culture, because the Greeks had a myriad of stories and a VERY rich culture, whereas Rome at this time was mainly a military society. In fact, Rome used the story of the Illiad and the Aeneid to claim that they had a beef with Greece and was therefore "justified" to steal all of the Greek culture. If you look at the Roman "Myths," they parallel the Greeks very closely (especially the Gods/Godesses... they just changed the name).

 

I assume you're talking about the Goddess of War and Wisdom, Athena/Minerva? Yes, "rational" thought was said to come from Athena.

 

As for the ego... The ego is the negotiator between the Id and Superego. The id is desires, and the superego is rationals... Are you proposing that before the "Dark Ages" people were more ruled by the id and now they are more ruled by the superego? The ego is being the lines of communication between the two...

 

well, I see it this way...

 

In the times of Rome/Greece, creative people where the ones that people respected most (poets, artists, etc). These "right-brained" people were the ones who had an edge over sociecty. Nowadays, with a college education, you can gain MORE respect that way... but we still respect people who are artists and whatnot, it's just that now it's easier to survive on intellegence than it was back then...