Comrades: OK, here's something I ran into in the literature a number of years back: when I looked at the debates on cerebral lateralisation (the so-called "left brain/right brain" dichotomy), I read two things: 1) The degree of cerebral specialisation seems, in part, to be a function of social conditioning, in that the encouragement of abstract thinking by exploiters, and corresponding discouragement of it by the exploited, results in a greater specialisation by those encouraged than in those discouraged; 2) That the specialisation itself seems to reproduce the digital/analogue dichotomy so familiar to students of computer science. OK, comrades, there are a couple more theses for you to cogitate on (I'm also shooting this over to the Computer discussion group, see what they think): back to you! Hasta pronto, y a la victoria, siempre, MKO.
Aha, since there don't seem to be an edit function here, let me conclude with the question I also just put to the Computer grouo: "Does the digital/analogue dichotomy offer a dilectically materialist explanation of cerebral lateralisation?" Back to you, comrades!
Nioce.
It very well does, read the some of Marx's work on man as a "species being."
I would think that whatever material 'species being' substrate our 'social being' has to work with --as regards the brain in this case: such 'division of labor' by class relations would IMO very much indeed invariably lead to the respective hyper- and hypo- trophying of whatever dynamic, dialectical relations that material substrate has to offer us to begin with; but obviously not END with...
