I’ve been thinking about my brain today. Actually I think about the brain - any brain - alot. I would love to be able to see all the blinking and flashing of synapses and neurotransmitters in people walking down the street or standing in line at the grocery store or sitting in a movie. Do you suppose, if that were true, brains would be allowed to blink and flash in movies? Kind of like having to turn off your cell phone? A silly aside.
Right brain and left brain - our brain is literally separated into these two halves. Connected by the neural tissue of the corpus callosum, ‘messages’ are passed back and forth from one section to another. The right brain thinks in a colourful, sometimes artsy way. Creative, seeking meaning and depth, fun, fancy and beauty in life. The left brain is all business - ‘just the facts ma’am’, bulleted ideas and numbered steps (and rather bossy about it). This corpus callosum thing is the connection between the two halves.
And our ‘two’ brains run our lives and do it well as long as we don’t interfere with our whims and wants, with lack of sleep or with foods and substances that cause rewiring. We can’t see the blinking and flashing, but we do get to see the behaviour that results from all that activity and feel the feelings that also result from brain activity. My very own brand of epilepsy is a result of a bit of wonky brain activity that first interested me in brain chemistry and structure. What I’ve also learned is that it’s no wonder that folks do some very strange and sometimes fatal things because of brain activity gone awry. Our personal will does not seem to have a structure - a different sort of connection. An invisible connection with each other, with nature and with the Universe.
“The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining,
just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.”
~ Corliss Lamont
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