36098 Y340: Equally eerie behavior was displayed

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BY PATIENT WJ,
a Second World War veteran.

WJ's hands were each controlled
by a different hemisphere. Since these
two hemispheres were not in touch with one another,
it sometimes happened that his right hand would reach out to ópen a door,
and then his left hand would intervene and try to slam the door shut?! In yet another experiment
Gazzaniga and his team flashed a picture of a chicken claw to the left-half brain - the side responsible for
speech - and simultaneously flashed a picture of a snowy landscape to the right brain. When asked what he
saw, patient PS answered 'a chicken claw'. Gazzaniga then presented PS with a series of picture cards and
asked him to point to the one that best matched what he had seen. The patient's right hand (controlled by
his left brain) pointed to a picture of a chicken, but simultaneously his left hand shot out and pointed to a
snow shovel. Gazzaniga then asked PS the obvious question: 'Why did you point both to the chicken and
the shovel?' PS replied, 'Oh, the chicken claw goes with the chicken, and you need a shovel to clean out
the chicken shed!' What happened here? The left brain, which controls speech, had no data about the
snow scene, and therefore did not really know why the left hand pointed to the shovel! So it just
invented something credible? After repeating this experiment many times Gazzaniga concluded
that the left hemisphere of the brain is the seat not only of our verbal abilities,
but also of an internal interpreter that constantly
tries to make sense of our life,
using partial clues in order to
concoct plausible
stories...

Mòr heeft
iets dergelijks (?))
als ik lees, schrijf & luister 'tegelijkertijd':
m'n oog ziet wat ik lees & schrijf ÈN de oren horen wat iemand zegt? Kortom:
ik lees 'n verhaal, schrijf het op & volg tegelijk 'n interview! 't Brein vlecht vervolgens vaak 'n combinatie tezamen
van die (minstens drie) 'gelijke' invloeden: m'n fantasie is dan blijkbaar bezig, net als in 'n droom of visioen,
om die diverse bronnen te 'verenigen' tot 'n zinniger samenspel van zinvolle gewaarwording? 't Gelezen,
geschreven & aangehoorde relaas wordt één, toch blijven het aparte wegen die zich graag met elkaar
willen uitbalanceren? Tijdreizen is ook al zoiets: je bent 'n resultaat van jouw verleden
dat reist in 'n heden onderweg naar de toekomst?
Die (minstens) drie 'werkelijkheden'
vormen samen iets nieuws dat
alledrie in 'n ander
licht stelt: we
zijn 'op
reis'!
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