Am working on another Article but it came out wrong yesterday so have to back to the drawing board. Basically am getting sucked into – or tethered using the word in a recent article – scientistic materialism view whilst trying to blow the whistle on scientism/materialism. We have all been so indoctrinated with this idea that ‘reality’ is ‘objective reality’ and we cannot get out of that paradigm, self included. So I want to make sure that the Article – which is about the implications derived from this left-brain occlusion principle (making the gorilla invisible even though it is right in front of us and definitely in the visual field) – doesn’t confine itself to only sensory and thus physical occlusion but also psychological, emotional and societal.
And part of the problem is that reading through McGilchrest’s material is mentally tiring – though pleasant – so it might take a while for this author to be able to both absorb that material and be able to compose something original related to it. It will take a month or so to make it through the 1300 page magnum opus. This first 400 page section is about brain science, which I personally find laborious, but I want to read the scientific homework he did over many years which serves as a materialist-approved foundation for the non-materialist conclusions he comes to later on.
The first thrust is to show that we exist in a left-brain dominant society and that the left brain is subject to blind spots of many types and that right brain has more to offer in terms of right judgment and comprehension of context versus detail, also is less subject to jumping to false conclusions and more open to correcting previously erroneous views. So this first section involves the results of neurological experiments with brain damaged or psychiatrically challenged patients and is a bit of a hard slog. About one week more and I’ll be through it, though! That said, it’s mainly deals with physical issues since it is summarizing conventional scientific ‘neurological’ brain studies so naturally conducted by scientists fully on board with the materialist-mechanistic mindset. (It’s getting to me!)
Meanwhile, the above image is another visual left-right brain demonstration mentioned in McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things. This one takes only 30 seconds but is more definitive than the gorilla video which only 50% of people viewing it get a clear result, i.e. they don’t see the gorilla, meaning that for the 50% who do see the gorilla it’s a meaningless exercise. This one is said to work on everybody. You look at the blinking dot and the fixed yellow points arranged nearby in a triangle blink on an off. This is the left brain turning off the right brain in order to limit the ingress of what it regards as inappropriate data showing once again how left brain dominance can create distorted perception.
This is a visual test. The same occlusion mechanics, I believe, can happen in other experiential and less overtly physical contexts including beliefs, politics, science, conversation, family life, working life and so forth. Below is a link to the wikipedia page where is found the above .gif file.
With the image at the top of this page, simply focus on the blinking cyan dot and watch the yellow fixed dots around come in and out of view. Takes a little while (though never very long) but it will happen.
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