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Experiments show that most children rank highly creative (right brain) before entering school. Because our educational systems place a higher value on left brain skills such as mathematics, logic and language than it does on drawing or using our imagination, only ten percent of these same children will rank highly creative by age 7. By the time we are adults, high creativity remains in only 2 percent of the population.

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explains a lot about this society  I think

Edit: Shucks.  Oh well.

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After about a decade of trying to find a categorization scheme, scientists concluded that the left and right hemispheres could not be simply characterized. By the mid-1980s, more and better data indicated that there were not left-hemisphere tasks and right-hemisphere tasks. Rather, it seemed that both hemispheres contributed to nearly all tasks in a normal brain, and when one hemisphere was better than the other in a particular type of processing, the advantage was usually modest. (The only exception seems to be language, which does appear to be mostly localized in the left hemisphere for most people.) The broad participation of both hemispheres in most cognitive tasks became especially apparent in the 1990s when brain imaging data (e.g., from fMRIs and PET scans) of normal subjects became widely available—both hemispheres participate in virtually every task.

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With all this evidence, Hellige says that researchers have come to see the distinction between the two hemispheres as a subtle one of processing style, with every mental faculty shared across the brain, and each side contributing in a complementary, not exclusive, fashion. A smart brain became one that simultaneously grasped both the foreground and the background of the moment.

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The trouble with the hemispheric specialization theory is that it is not backed up by scans of brain activity.  The original study was done on damaged brains which had been artificially "specialized" by severing the corpus collosum.  Once researchers were able to test this theory on intact brains, they were forced to abandon the concept of the split-brain.

Here's another article for you:
http://www.rense.com/general2/rb.htm

The Triune Brain theory has far more merit, and the research backs it up. 

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MushroomTrip said:
It releases DMT only in certain moments. But yes it does.
Don't you just love that gland?

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Rick Strassman, the author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule and a psychiatrist associated with the University of New Mexico School of Medicine (Note not a research neurochemist), was the first person in recent decades to obtain federal approval for human-subject research with a hallucinogen (now an antiquated word but still used). Strassman hypothesizes (note this is not science just because some Doctor proposes it, or hypothesises; also note, even if all doctors are smart and the rest of us are idiots) that under extreme conditions the pineal gland produces psychedelic amounts of DMT. It is hard to know what to make of his subjects' experimentally induced reports about their experiences with this very quick-acting, powerful, and short-duration drug. .

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MushroomTrip said:
Yup that was it.
And I said some research, not solid proof

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