Purple Rabbit -
That's a good example. I think it's generally a very western view to consider emotions and intuition as being insignificant when in fact they're far from it. Humans have the capacity for reason and logic and observation of the material, but we also have the capacity to make sense of things by intuition. It's like they say, when you know, you know. I don't know if the general view here is that there's no such thing as left brain and right brain thinking, but regardless, I'm going to use the terms and you can take them figuratively if you like but an important point need to be made and those terms are useful in making them. With left brain thinking, the emphasis is on confirmation through external observation, whereas in right brain thinking, the emphasis is on intuitively / subconsciously knowing more than you consciously know. This is why, if you're good at it (like I said before it's like a muscle or a skill, it needs developing) you can pose a question or dilemma or challenge to yourself before going to sleep and wake up with the answer. Artists, scientists, many different types of people have done and still do this. It works because the subconscious mind and one's intuition is there to soak up everything you experience and it is able to form answers at speeds which are much faster than conventional "working it out". The information that the subconscious and intuition deals with is just as real as what you might observe when you're consciously trying to figure something out, the difference is that the conscious mind, which I liken to the tip of a huge iceberg (the subcon being the rest of the iceberg) misses an awful lot simply by virtue of being in the mode of trying. The truth is that the human mind / intuition is a lot more powerful than is acknowledged. We actually do know, instinctively and intuitively, a lot more than the conscious / right brain is able to process. Another way of looking at it is comparing someone who paints by numbers and just filling in the gaps where the diagram tells them to paint which colour, and an artist who already has the full picture and then creates it from scratch. The end result is a much better picture, which takes into account much more than the painted-by-numbers picture does, which only deals in one "dimension", namely what colour goes where, and there's not a lot of actual creativity going on. The artist however is also thinking about perspective, light and shade, form, etc etc all simultaneously. That's what the right brain / intuition does. The traditional western mind-centred approach is very limited and rigid and in many cases doesn't really 'get it". But it's good at what it does, however when it deals in areas which it's not good at dealing with (at least not without the guidance of the right brain approach) it always fails. So the best approach is a collaboration between both sides, rather than one side trying to do something it simply can't.
That's a good example. I think it's generally a very western view to consider emotions and intuition as being insignificant when in fact they're far from it. Humans have the capacity for reason and logic and observation of the material, but we also have the capacity to make sense of things by intuition. It's like they say, when you know, you know. I don't know if the general view here is that there's no such thing as left brain and right brain thinking, but regardless, I'm going to use the terms and you can take them figuratively if you like but an important point need to be made and those terms are useful in making them. With left brain thinking, the emphasis is on confirmation through external observation, whereas in right brain thinking, the emphasis is on intuitively / subconsciously knowing more than you consciously know. This is why, if you're good at it (like I said before it's like a muscle or a skill, it needs developing) you can pose a question or dilemma or challenge to yourself before going to sleep and wake up with the answer. Artists, scientists, many different types of people have done and still do this. It works because the subconscious mind and one's intuition is there to soak up everything you experience and it is able to form answers at speeds which are much faster than conventional "working it out". The information that the subconscious and intuition deals with is just as real as what you might observe when you're consciously trying to figure something out, the difference is that the conscious mind, which I liken to the tip of a huge iceberg (the subcon being the rest of the iceberg) misses an awful lot simply by virtue of being in the mode of trying. The truth is that the human mind / intuition is a lot more powerful than is acknowledged. We actually do know, instinctively and intuitively, a lot more than the conscious / right brain is able to process. Another way of looking at it is comparing someone who paints by numbers and just filling in the gaps where the diagram tells them to paint which colour, and an artist who already has the full picture and then creates it from scratch. The end result is a much better picture, which takes into account much more than the painted-by-numbers picture does, which only deals in one "dimension", namely what colour goes where, and there's not a lot of actual creativity going on. The artist however is also thinking about perspective, light and shade, form, etc etc all simultaneously. That's what the right brain / intuition does. The traditional western mind-centred approach is very limited and rigid and in many cases doesn't really 'get it". But it's good at what it does, however when it deals in areas which it's not good at dealing with (at least not without the guidance of the right brain approach) it always fails. So the best approach is a collaboration between both sides, rather than one side trying to do something it simply can't.
