Have Switched To My 'New Age' Perception

[Angrboda]

I'm fascinated by the subject, as it forks into so many deep questions about epistemology, ontology, psychology, ethics, spirituality, religion, and pragmatics, but at the moment I have nothing to contribute on the matter.

I will however, suggest the following video, as well as investigating the subject of the psychology of split-brain subjects, pioneered by Sperry and Gazzaniga. I'll be back when the fog lifts.

Wikipedia: Split-brain (The point I want to emphasize isn't well brought out in Wikipedia; some writings on the subject suggest a great deal of both autonomy and substantiality to the hemispheres, to the point that each can be said to have unique personalities. [And I suppose Julian Jaynes' hypothesis of the emergence of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind, as well as slot in here as well.] And I'm babbling incoherently now, so I'll stop.)

"The Divided Brain"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFs9WO2B8uI

(ETA: If the "by-product" theory of religion is correct, there are emotional [and perhaps health] rewards associated with religious ritual. [Which has been analogized to our taste for sweet and fatty foods; something that is rewarded for reasons that, in current context, are overstimulating.] As such, there may be substantial reasons why a religious life may be "more addictive" than a secular one, as a result of the cognitive rewards from its practice; the question has been asked as to how one should attempt to compete with a lifestyle that is inherently more cognitively rewarding?)