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Why are you so left-brained, /sci/?

>> No.4359418 [DELETED] 

>>4359413


>fantasy based
>knows object function

pick one.

>> No.4359428

Half of that stuff is completely wrong.

Probably the most annoying one is:
Left brain "can comprehend", Right brain "can 'get it' (the meaning)"

>> No.4359436

because /sci/ hates love and creativity

/sci/ are like emotionless robot drones

>> No.4359445

I thought the left and right brain thing was disproven?

>> No.4359446

>>4359413

>Mfw the brain is not that fucking dichotomized.

>> No.4359451

>2012
>Still believing in the left brain for creative, right brain for logical bull

>> No.4359543 [DELETED] 

this right/left hemisphere crap is now troll bait? the distinctions are not that great - most of it is psychoanalytical crackpottery without any empirical support. reported.

>> No.4359548

this is complete bullshit i hate people who think
>oh I am not good at math/science because i am creative!

fuck you

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>>4359548

>> No.4359584

>>4359436
/sci/ has a lot of mathematicians, and mathematics is primarily a creative pursuit. So I wouldn't say we're so devoid of creativity. You should see some of the serious maths threads that happen here from time to time.

>> No.4359587

The only thing that seems to be lateralized in the brain is language, and even there there's some variation and leeway. E.g. there's a significant percentage of lefties who have their "language center" if it even qualifies as such, on the wrong side.

Also, there are many reported cases of people who lose a part of the brain in infancy and the work just gets redistributed. It's very highly plastic.

>> No.4359593

>>4359445
Kind of, we found out that if you lose one side of the brain, the other can retrieve everything it was responsible and move it to the side that's still there.

>> No.4359594

I'm left handed... but I can do stuff with my right hand, including writing and drawing because I got smacked for using my left hand by teachers.. Catholic school non-sense that actually inadvertently taught me to use both hand just as proficiently as the other.

Mixed-Handedness always wins over polarized individuals. Also right/left brain crap is quite well handed by this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
In other words, you're unique and diagrams can be helpful but not infinitely so. If you ever had a brain injury or stroke, you'd know just how liberating it is to know that you can regrow parts of you that were lost.

I think the whole right vs. left brain issue is very harmful indeed and rather we should emphasis on expanding society to be less polarized in attitudes about it. An easy way would be to teach people to be mixed handed in schools as part of the required curriculum. Thereby bypassing the issue of who has unlocked what potential in their minds, but a whole new avenue of questions and hopes of what did you personally achieve in your whole brained mind?

Grow up.

>> No.4359595 [DELETED] 

>>4359594
welcome to the master race

>the results were that there were significantly more left-handers amongst male mathematics undergraduates than male non-mathematics undergraduates (21% versus 11%) and significantly more non-right-handers (44% versus 24%), and that there was a similar but smaller left-handedness difference for female undergraduates (11% versus 8%).

>> No.4359601

This shit is a myth by the way.

I know it's been mentioned before but it's worth mentioning again.

>> No.4359613

>>4359595
I always find it pathetic when non-right-handers feel the need to go out and research (and invent) things that supposedly prove how special and great they are.
My father was left handed and whenever he saw somebody on tv who was left handed he would say "Look, see, he's left handed! Left handed people are better at acting!". So many facepalms.
Get a life.

>> No.4359618

>>4359613
Eh, it's not a big deal until you experience. Society as we know it was essentially designed to accommodate right handed people.

I'm right handed and take a lot of this shit for granted.

>> No.4359640

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JG4HBKVfeQ&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL9D0B
5B2AC3A69481

Left brain thinkers are extremely limited persons, They are incapable of creating original thoughts. They only process the data they have contact with as right or true. It destroys critical thinking. Asians are notorious for being left brained.

This includes, Atheists, leftists, objectivists, and so on.

>> No.4359638

>>4359594
Ive been right handed all my life but I plan/have started to teach myself to write/use both hands. Mostly because I have low muscle tone and find writing for any amount of time causes cramps in my hand to the point I cant use it, so I hope by being able to use both hands, I can just switch when it gets too much.

Also I find it kind of silly that people are so focused on making everyone use their right hand when being able to use shows far more ability.

>> No.4359648

>oh I am not good at math/science because i am creative!
>oh I am not creative because i am good at math/science
people who believe this are stupid and one-dimensional.
I know I'm both. to some extent.

>> No.4359651

Am I the only one who is kind of amusing by the fact in these types of drawings, right is always shown with bright colours and people having "fun" and the left hand side shown in monotone colours and straight lines.

>> No.4359655

>>4359638
>people are so focused on making everyone use their right hand
Nobody is focused, nobody cares. This is not the 80's anymore, teachers don't spank you for using your left hand, they don't even pay attention to which hand you use

>> No.4359676

>2012
>dumbasses actually think you dont need creativity to be good at science or math

oh /sci/ why so retard

>> No.4359683

>>4359640
>>4359640
>>4359640

THIS..

Btw, the dualist brain is true. ITs probably not as separated as OPs image but is ok

>> No.4359696

>>4359640
>thinks being stupid enough to believe in magic is a good thing.
go away

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>> No.4359719

>>4359696

What a retard, just imagine how much information you are neglecting because it doesn't fit the falsifiable methodology. If its not within the wavelength paradigm then it doesn't exist.

Keep living your emtpy life, if you actually think thats all theres to see in this universe then you extremely limited person.

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>> No.4359728

>>4359711
I said the colors like if it was fucking nothing. People actually have trouble with this?

>> No.4359748

>>4359728
But it took you longer than if the font was the exact colour of the word displayed, right?

>> No.4359756

>>4359711
Psychfag here, YES I MAD

That has nothing to do with brain hemispheres, it is a memory experiment.

Basically, you flash that up for 30 seconds then ask people to write down what the words said in order, they will say

Red, orange, pink, black, red, yellow - ect ect

and remember the colours

most brain parts are cross hemisphere, there is no real difference between left/right side of the brain

Is this what it feels like to be a biologist when creationists talk about evolution?

>> No.4359761

>>4359748
ehh slightly yeah, but nothing significant. I did struggle more to do the opposite to read the word instead the color.

>> No.4359768

>>4359761
In that case you're extremely right-brained,
congratulations.

What is such a creative and happy person doing on depressing and analytical /sci/?

Also, check the "dancing woman" test, if you see her spinning clockwise, you're more right-brained,
if you see her spinning anti-clockwise, you're more left-brained.

>> No.4359774

>>4359756
>smelly dumb psychfag scum

Is not that is LITERALLY ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN. "Left" or "Right" means different types of mindsets, different types of processing information that comes from your environment.

Our education system heavily indoctrinates humans into left-brain thinking.

>> No.4359779

>>4359768
I'm in grad school in genetics and computational biology. I rarely come here, I usually stay at the board that has /new. (I would get banned if i name it). I was checking /fit/ and decided to check whats up with /sci/

>> No.4359783

>>4359774
>Our education system heavily indoctrinates humans into left-brain thinking.
Spoken like a real unemployed high school dropout that spends his time smoking weed and writing shitty poems that nobody likes. Fuck the police, eh?

>> No.4359787

>>4359783
>doesn't adress points or refute arguments
>resorts to namecalling

You already lost this discussion.

>> No.4359796

>>4359787
>Thinks his post had points or arguments
wat?
All I saw was bitching

>> No.4359813

>>4359774
>>Our education system heavily indoctrinates humans into not thinking.

Fixed for accuracy.

>> No.4359817

>>4359796
>Is not that is LITERALLY ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN. "Left" or "Right" means different types of mindsets, different types of processing information that comes from your environment.


Thats not bitching you stupid retard.

>Spoken like a real unemployed high school dropout that spends his time smoking weed and writing shitty poems that nobody likes. Fuck the police, eh?

Speaking like a true left-brained faggot. "If he is against left-brained people, he must be right-brained, meaning that he has to be in some sort of humanities major"

I think credentials are useless but if you want them I did my undergrad in EE and im doing a MS in Computational Biology (finishing this semester) after 2 years of working in the Industry.

I dont care about that, my original comment still above still stands. If your retard brain has trouble understanding the meaning of it then just kill yourself

>> No.4359824

>>4359817
>Thats not bitching you stupid retard.
Lies
>Posting qualifications
More obvious lies.
You are pathetic.

>> No.4359825

>>4359796
>saying facts
>bitching

Yeah, okay.

The western education system doesn't encourage kids
to be 'creative' or 'adventurous' or independent. they only indoctrinate them with only left-brained shit and encourage them to follow the system like a good little sheeple, don't question the establishment. They reward kids that do this to thoroughly brainwash them.

>inb4 hurrdurr conspiracy weed nutjob hurrdurr

It's a fact and you know it.

Education is a joke and grades don't mean shit nowadays.

>> No.4359828

>>4359813
"Thinking" as critical thinking requires a certain degree of creativity. Most faggots in here that major in sciences just regurgitate a bunch of "facts" that they got from their 250USD dollar biology books, and think they are some sort of geniuses. They never question what they are reading, nor they question why the fuck did they pay such ammount of money for such trivial knowledge, they never question the system they are trapped. Because they were trained from very young that grades and doing well in school is what gives you value.

Like a good fucking left-brained dog.

>> No.4359838

>>4359824
I don't give a fuck about qualifications, you asked for them. Are you going to keep trowing ad hominems or we are going to actually have a discussion here?

>> No.4359860

I want to add, those people that didn't major in Engineering, computer science, or any of the hard sciences are just retards that lie to themselves about being "creative" or "street smart" when they majored in mass communications, arts, or any other Frat major.

Sure, there are rare exceptions. But you cant tell me with a straight face that more than 1-3% of the students on those fields actually have talent.

>> No.4359869

>>4359825

tinfoilhat.jpg

>> No.4359875

>>4359825
>Education is a joke and grades don't mean shit nowadays.
Only if you live in America or are talking about highschool

>> No.4359876

>>4359825
nor the eastern education system

>> No.4359877

>>4359869
herding_sheep.jpg

Yes yes don't question the establishment,
good little slave.

>> No.4359878

>>4359825
>The western education system doesn't encourage kids
to be 'creative' or 'adventurous' or independent.
PROTIP: None of them do, that's why it's called an education SYSTEM.

>> No.4359880

>>4359768
>Also, check the "dancing woman" test, if you see her spinning clockwise, you're more right-brained,
if you see her spinning anti-clockwise, you're more left-brained.

I was always curious who else could make her switch the way she spins.

>> No.4359886

>>4359875
Unless its EXTREMELY BAD, It doesn't matter anywhere when everyone has a fucking great GPA. It doesnt matter for the Industry or to a Lab X or Y because the fact that you are good at solving tests means nothing when it comes to real skills. i.e good at working as teams, good organization, good communication skills actual laboral skills. Those skills can be assessed by reading the CV and with an interview. GPA is irrelevant at all levels of education.

>> No.4359888

I would say that i'm a little bit of both, tbh.

>> No.4359890

>>4359880
Anybody can make her switch, it's exactly like that necker cube illusion. Also, correlating her direction of motion with being 'left-brained' or 'right-brained' is so horribly misinformed an idea it might as well be astrology. Go ask a neurologist if they're 'left-brained' or 'right-brained' and watch them laugh in your face.

>> No.4359901

>>4359890
I havent met anyone else who could. Whereas Ive been able to do it from the moment I saw it. That is why I am curious. I dont think it is a example of being left and right brained, it was more a question as to who else could make it switch.

>> No.4359907

>>4359877

You have just proven beyond any doubt that you are nothing more than an edgy high school teenager. "Oooh look at me! Fuck the establishment man! I'm so unique because I question things! Everyone else is a mindless sheep! I'm so enlightened!" Go fuck yourself with a cactus, you fucking useless burden on society. Yes, I mad.

>> No.4359930

>>4359907
Not that guy but

>He stated a fact
>You name call him
>He name call you back
>You name call him again.

You are a very smart fellow Mr.

>> No.4359939

>>4359901
Oh, well I can switch it at will, it's not that hard. I'm actually more surprised that people can't switch it, sounds like they're mentally deficient.

>> No.4359952

>>4359939
I can switch it at will as well. And same here. My friends actually don't beleive me I think when I say I can switch it, but oh well.

>> No.4360171

>>4359593
>Kind of, we found out that if you lose one side of the brain, the other can retrieve everything it was responsible and move it to the side that's still there.
if this is true, then why do we have two halves of brain? wouldn't it be much more economical from the evolutionary perspective to only make one half, since it consumes less energy?

>> No.4360172

>>4359721
I wish there was a big 3840x1080 version of this to use for a dual monitor setup. Shit would be awesome.

>> No.4360173

>>4359952
>>4359939
samefag

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>>4359952
anyone can make it switch

>> No.4360187

im right brained and aced all of my science related subjects in college

just plain oldfashioned hardwork breh

>> No.4360188

>>4360181
Yes when seeing that picture they could. I am just saying what Ive heard.

>> No.4360194

>>4360171
You also have two kidneys, two nostrils, and two lungs, among others. Most of these things offer no particular benefit in and of themselves, but redundancy and bilateral symmetry have numerous biological advantages.

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Because my science is better than their magic, which doesn't make any logical sense.

We live in an unchanging world.
Why can't they see that?