Transcending our left-brain limitations

With respect to any speculative endeavor, our decisions stem from our conscious thinking about our situation, weighing the risks, the pros, the cons and the desired consequences of our actions. It's important to note that our internal monologues, the thoughts we think only to ourselves, are always formed in language. Thinking a thought without language is almost inconceivable.

That's where things get slippery. Our internal monologues largely define our relationship to the outside world. Because they are expressed in language, they are predominantly formed by our brain's language-heavy left hemisphere, which comes with certain important handicaps. But before we go there, a word about the brain's hemispheres: the discovery of the differences between the left hemisphere (LH) and the right hemisphere (RH) of the brain has been the single greatest advance in neuropsychology in over 50 years....<<<Read More>>>...