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Read an answer in quora that people who are good at Mathematics aren't so good at writing because practicing literature involves mostly right side of the brain, and Maths nerds mostly use the left side.
That made me wonder, what subjects do you think establishes connection between the both sides so as to evolve both in a balanced proportion?

>> No.11632427

>>11632422
Theology

>> No.11632446

>>11632422
how about you read a book about lateralisation of brain function instead

>> No.11632458

>>11632446
Definitly a lefty brain.

>> No.11632480

>>11632422
Philosophy, obv.

>> No.11632487

>>11632480
Something useful I mean.

>> No.11632540
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11632540

>>11632422
>mfw I remember right-handed drones process language in their brain's left hemisphere and can't effortlessly visualize what they read

>> No.11632559

>>11632427
>>11632480
this

>> No.11632579

>>11632487
economics

>> No.11632595

Pop psychology's version of left brain, right brain is pure scientism. You've made up the problem of 'connection' because of a stupid categorization. Literally just find connections by thinking and applying what you're good at and practicing what you're not (although the chances of that are slim given that you're asking a question about a quora answer with no understanding of what you're talking about)

>> No.11632947

>>11632579
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ORYnPDkYv-M&t=77s

>> No.11632954

>>11632422
>Left/Right brain distinction
>brainlet.jpg

>> No.11633068

They can't write well because writing is generative, not repetitive, like Mathematics.

>> No.11633085

>>11633068

Could you expand on that and offer sources?

>> No.11633094

>>11632422
The epitome of human knowledge.

A fucking Indian undergraduate on Quora.

>> No.11633100

>>11632422
Wasn't that shown to be bullshit?

>> No.11633116

>>11633100
No, you can't show it's bullshit because it isn't even making a coherent claim in the first place.

>> No.11633121

Explain polymaths then? in the past people were good at maths and writing.

Also people who score highly in mathematics exams also score highly in english examinations.

>> No.11633465

>>11633121
False.

https://www.livescience.com/16897-math-language-dyslexia-dyscalculia.html

/"The brain systems for maths and language are quite different," said Brian Butterworth, emeritus professor of cognitive neuropsychology at University College London, using British English's dialect for "math." "So perhaps it is not surprising that these two capacities are rather independent."/

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11633479

>>11632427
I was going to reply
>theology, fucking retard what

But then I thought about it and you have to be pretty creative to come up with bs theories of the universe.

>> No.11633487

>>11632422
This whole left-right brain thing is not as simple as you're making it out to be...

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11633497

>left-brain right-brain
>not top-brain bottom-brain

>> No.11633634

>>11632458
>definitly

>> No.11633739

>>11633068
t. high school student

>> No.11633747

>>11632458
Why does leftypol want an anti-white safe-space blah blah I forgot the rest of the pasta

>> No.11634089

>>11633487
>This whole left-right brain thing is not as simple as you're making it out to be...
^This is the right way to complain about the OP FYI.
Not that it's bullshit (since there obviously do exist two hemispheres with plenty of distinct functionality in one vs. the other when looking at the average human brain) but that it isn't like MBTI or astrology where you define it with a list of vague adjectives like "logic" or "feelings."
The reality of lateralization of brain function is way more interesting than that. The split brain experiments Gazzaniga did for example are fucking crazy, and it's neat how you can reliably predict this weird kind of delusional behavior on the part of patients who suffer a stroke to certain parts of their right hemisphere. In contrast with the stereotype of the left hemisphere as "logical," when the right hemisphere is damaged it's the left hemisphere that will go into overdrive and start making up all sorts of delusional nonsense to explain everything the patient is dealing with e.g. refusing to believe their left arm has been pararlyzed by the stroke even though they clearly can't move it and when the doctor presses them on the issue they'll try to explain it away by saying the doctor is actually pointing to a different person's arm that doesn't belong to them.
In this way you can start to view delusional thinking as a form of excessively "logical" abstraction rather than as something illogical, in that it's made up of conclusions which are obviously wrong from a common view perspective but which can be argued in the purely abstract sense as following a well formed pattern of "Cause A explains Event B." Something similar goes on in dreams where you usually don't realize you're dreaming even though everything going on is ridiculous fro a common sense perspective because your mind keeps explaining it away with flimsy rationalizations like "oh yeah, I'm back in school even though I haven't been in school for twenty years because I forgot to return my library book."

>> No.11634105

>>11634089
Keep writing, anon
I've got a glass of wine and a comfy chair and I just want to spend some time reading what you have to say

>> No.11634109

Mathcucks BTFO

>> No.11634122

>>11634089
Any recommendations to read more about this?

>> No.11634175

>>11632422
Why is Pynchon a God of both mathematics and literature then?

>> No.11634244

>>11634175
Pynchon studied English though. He studied engineering for a year only before leaving for navy.

>> No.11634245

how to achieve bilateral resonance?

>> No.11634254

>>11634175
Pynchon is Pynchon. Can't compare a great to the general populace

>> No.11634270

music.

>> No.11634328

>>11633068
>They can't write well because writing is generative, not repetitive, like Mathematics.
Have you ever written a formal proof in math?

>> No.11634429

>>11632422
>30+ replies to a thread about a disproved myth
saged and bluepilled

>> No.11635008

Bump

>> No.11635188

>>11633094
Underrated