Greetings, comrades! Here's something I ran into in the literature a number of years back, on which I just initiated discussion on the psychology group: 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 (which is why this discussion is being reproduced here: to stimulate discussion between this group and the Psychology group on this or any other topics of mutual interest). Does the digital/analogue dichotomy offer a dilectically materialist explanation of cerebral lateralisation? Back to you, comrades! Hasta pronto, y a la victoria, siempre, MKO.
