items of interest
My business partner has epilepsy. She told me about how one of her friends will have an episode where they will get up, peruse a bookcase, open books, flip through them, return them while completely oblivious to the world around them. Once they've made it through, they're completely unaware of their activities.
Absolutely fascinating. In the context of Julian Jaynes, this may be a time where the left brain's awareness, control, or connection has been switched off leaving the right, subconscious hemisphere in charge.
This tickles my supposition how individuals are of two minds. Epilepsy may be a fight for control, or crossed wires, where the right brain wants to take over the body. Same for alien hand syndrome, where their limbs act without having conscious control over them. In stuttering, perhaps the left brain is well in control with speech but the right brain has a better word or wants to say something entirely different. Those linguistic pathways become overloaded, leading someone to stutter as each hemisphere trips over itself. Also Tourette's and its associated coprolalia. People with a functional right hemisphere can still sing normally, in addition to using profanity, but regular speech is near-impossible.
Phenomena like this possibly contributes to the idea of epilepsy being equated to possession until recently. I wonder if what I've experienced under the influence of psychedelics is analogous to epilepsy. After the really hard trip I had last August 2016, I'm certain psychedelics shut down the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere takes over. For an hour I had coprolalia and all I could do was observe my actions rather than stop it.
Absolutely fascinating. In the context of Julian Jaynes, this may be a time where the left brain's awareness, control, or connection has been switched off leaving the right, subconscious hemisphere in charge.
This tickles my supposition how individuals are of two minds. Epilepsy may be a fight for control, or crossed wires, where the right brain wants to take over the body. Same for alien hand syndrome, where their limbs act without having conscious control over them. In stuttering, perhaps the left brain is well in control with speech but the right brain has a better word or wants to say something entirely different. Those linguistic pathways become overloaded, leading someone to stutter as each hemisphere trips over itself. Also Tourette's and its associated coprolalia. People with a functional right hemisphere can still sing normally, in addition to using profanity, but regular speech is near-impossible.
Phenomena like this possibly contributes to the idea of epilepsy being equated to possession until recently. I wonder if what I've experienced under the influence of psychedelics is analogous to epilepsy. After the really hard trip I had last August 2016, I'm certain psychedelics shut down the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere takes over. For an hour I had coprolalia and all I could do was observe my actions rather than stop it.