The practitioner in mind

The act of changing the brain function over between different sides of the brain. Where do we put the gap between the left and right side? As far as I was aware was that if you severed any kind of connection between the two sides would prevent function. In some tests, people who had trouble with some certain aspects of thinking had their two sides separated. They survived. But they had still some trouble connecting thought. But what is this distinction from left to right? If left and right were so true then people would mix them up, forget, animals would understand. Is the mind not a whole?

In art, when someone reproduces something from life... It is said that the artist is using the right side of the brain. Because the right side of the brain is associated with creativity, thought free of language, and sudden erratic insights. But why is it that the logical though side (left) isn't associated with sketching from life. When sketching, one must logically place together a landscape, using exact methods of reproduction. Do the left and right not have equal parts to play in this.

This separation of the mind... functions of the brain... These are almost like saying that your left and right hand are physiologically different. Sure, they do different things. But isn't that just because we choose to do that? Isn't it just a point of view that we specifically portray upon these? Does a tree consider using its left or right side to house birds?

I really don't understand why there are such differentiations.

Maybe this is just a viewpoint that we cast upon our own minds.

When I was in a room full of people, a teacher put on a projector an animation of a woman who appeared to be spinning in one direction. But when you looked closer, she wasn't spinning, it was just a trick. For some people, this figure moved left, some right. But for some, it did neither. And even for a few, it did whatever they wanted it to. But after the teacher pointed out that it followed which side of the brain you used... Almost everyone could control its direction.

Sure, I do not dispute that if someone hits their right side of their head, they will be fine because of the left. Of course there is some separation, but brain studies conclude that each part is so entwined, that when some part of the mind is effected all of it is.

Just like the nature of life, everything is one.

Kind of like how it was found that the stomach is a second brain.

But the thing I really refuse - not so much, but find it impossible to grasp - is this distinction between aspects of the mind. When you stop thinking, you do not cease. When you are thinking you do not purely use one side of the brain.

Now I have no idea where I was going with this, and I have so much to say that I shall stop, and perhaps write something another time when I have a point to make.