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The Point of Having a Brain.

Obvious as this may seem , we've been given a large brain so that we can think.

Whether in humans or mammals, the brain consists of three components - the old brain, the midbrain, and the new brain. Each has unique functions in the orchestra of organs that work in unison to keep us alive.

The direction of human evolution has been primarily in the growth of the frontal lobes.
These lobes are involved in our ability to make judgement's, and it is from here that the processing of information - thinking - primarily takes place.

Just as our capacity for learning depends on thinking, our capacity for thinking well depends on learning. While we have instincts like other animals', they don't always automatically govern our behavior to as great a degree. This factor gives us free will. We've been endowed with the combination of these frontal lobes and freedom, which enables us to learn throughout a lifetime.

Compared to that of other mammals, the period of our childhood dependency is much longer relative to our total life span. Given our relative lack of instincts, we need that time to learn before we are able to branch out on our own. Learning is crucial to our ability to grow in Awareness, to think independently, and to Master the Knowledge necessary for surviving and thriving in life.

When we are young, our dependency on those who raise us shapes our thinking and what we learn.

And given our lengthy dependence, we are at risk of developing thinking patterns that may become ingrained, even seemingly irreversible.

If we have adults in our young lives who help us to learn to think well, we benefit in a multitude of ways.

If we have adults in our young lives whose own thinking is Suspect, Disordered, or otherwise Limited, our thinking will be impaired by what we learn and don't learn from them. But it would be nonsense to presume that we are doomed. As adults we no longer have to depend on others to tell us what to do.

There is a distinction between Healthy and unhealthy dependency. Just as the myriad of disorders that stem from resistance to thinking are complex, so also is the relationship between these disorders and our complex brain.

It is now believed that the left brain is our deductive brain and the right brain is primarily involved in deductive reasoning.
These patters are not total absolutes, but more or less indicate tendencies of why information only feed to right side of brain will be able to name but wont be able to explain why it is what it is.

The research on split brains represents, believed the most formidable advance in the field of Epistemology, suggesting that we have at least two way of knowing, and that obviously we will know things better if we use both left-brain and right brain thinking.
Being Androgynous does not imply that someone is desexed, Men do not lose the masculinity and women do not lose their femininity if they are androgynous .

Rather they display the characteristics off both sexes. Thinking in that sense, would imply the ability to use both sides of the brain to integrate concrete and abstract realities.

The ancient Sumerians, is told , had a basic rule for guiding their thinking not unlike split-brain theory. With regard to any important decisions to be made (usually about whether or not to go to war with the Babylonians), they literally had to think twice. If the first decision had been arrived at when they were drunk, it had to be reconsidered when they were sober. If, when drunk, they said, "Lets go get those Babylonians," then later, in the clear, cool light of day, it might not look like such a smart decision.

Conversely, if they were cold sober when they decided that it would be strategically clever to beat up the Babylonians, they held off and said, "First lets drink  some wine." drunk they might come to the conclusion that "there's no need to go to war with them. Hell, we love the Baylonians."

For all they lacked in modern technology, the Sumerians had the right approach. And there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to think reasonably in this day and age.
Unless there is Brain Damage as a result of surgery or a tumor or other disease, we have these wonderful frontal lobes at our disposal.

But that does not mean people will use them, much less use them to their fullest capacity. Indeed, brain damage is not the only factor contributing to Thinking Irrationally or Not at All. it is the least of the factors.

Among others, there are profound ways in which society actually discourages us from using our frontal lobes, promoting one-dimensional, simplistic thinking as the normal way of thinking.
Everywhere we turn, the evidence is astounding. Simplistic thinking has become so Pandemic in society that it is considered normal and conventional wisdom among some of the segment of the population.

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Our incredible emphasis on fashion discourages people from thinking independently and encourages conventional thinking in accordance with generally accepted views and stereotypes.

Such thinking may border on the Irrational or Cross the line into Insanity, as it did for out nation in Vietnam.



We have an obligation to confront our Simplistic thinking about what "Normal"should mean: an obligation to use critical thinking against what stands fundamentally crazy.

To use critical thinking does not suggest that everyone must become a walking encyclopedia. It doesn't mean we all have to know everything about any executive or judicial branch decisions but we do have an obligation to study, learn and think about those things that are of high importance. One of the most crucial skills of critical thinking is that of deciding what is essential to think or learn about, and what is nonessential. And we must acknowledge the gaps in our own knowledge, rather than feel compelled to let Pride, Fear, of Laziness lure us unto assuming the role of Know-it-all.

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