Thursday, October 30, 2008
False Left-brain Right-brain Test
"Left Brain v Right Brain Test"
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0%2C023739%2C22556678-23272%2C00.html
Someone else pointed out to me that if you put your attention on the shadow of the foot she turns anticlockwise. This attention to the shadow unravels the mystery it seems to me, and shows the test false:
The shadow of the lifted foot is, since it's only visible in part of its arc, is unambiguously going anti-clockwise so the dancer is too - only if your brain is so selective that it never really sees or takes in that shadow can anyone interpret the movement as clockwise.
Therefore, I think this is a decent test of Alzheimer's (sorry bro), or maybe typical male laser-like focus on naked female bodies. (Male brains during orgasm have intense activity in a small area unlike female for example.)
IMHO, a well-functioning brain will unconsciously take into account the foot-shadow and can then only give one interpretation. But we know from other studies that male brains don't function that well well viewing naked nubile females.
Today's excitement: trying to figure out today whether I'm smelling dead neighbor out in the hallway (wouldn't be the first time in the last month or so.)
Interesting new study shows genetic illnesses aren't caused by new mutations but the opposite - very old genes going back to single-cell life. If that holds up, this tells me these illnesses are 99% environmental, triggered by our dazzlingly unnatural modern lives. Light being suspect number one for me, but not the only suspect.
Genetic-based Human Diseases Are An Ancient Evolutionary Legacy, Research Suggests
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081016124043.htm
Russ
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0%2C023739%2C22556678-23272%2C00.html
Someone else pointed out to me that if you put your attention on the shadow of the foot she turns anticlockwise. This attention to the shadow unravels the mystery it seems to me, and shows the test false:
The shadow of the lifted foot is, since it's only visible in part of its arc, is unambiguously going anti-clockwise so the dancer is too - only if your brain is so selective that it never really sees or takes in that shadow can anyone interpret the movement as clockwise.
Therefore, I think this is a decent test of Alzheimer's (sorry bro), or maybe typical male laser-like focus on naked female bodies. (Male brains during orgasm have intense activity in a small area unlike female for example.)
IMHO, a well-functioning brain will unconsciously take into account the foot-shadow and can then only give one interpretation. But we know from other studies that male brains don't function that well well viewing naked nubile females.
Today's excitement: trying to figure out today whether I'm smelling dead neighbor out in the hallway (wouldn't be the first time in the last month or so.)
Interesting new study shows genetic illnesses aren't caused by new mutations but the opposite - very old genes going back to single-cell life. If that holds up, this tells me these illnesses are 99% environmental, triggered by our dazzlingly unnatural modern lives. Light being suspect number one for me, but not the only suspect.
Genetic-based Human Diseases Are An Ancient Evolutionary Legacy, Research Suggests
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081016124043.htm
Russ
