Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

I mean, she taught me everything.

So that, yeah, she reared me twice.

Wow.

And that single cell has all the DNA blueprint that it's going to take to multiply itself into all these different kinds of cells that will differentiate into specific functions.

Like you're going to start with that single cell, then you're going to end up with three layers of cells, essentially.

One of those layers of cells, the ectoderm, is going to become the nervous system, spinal cord, brain, peripheral nervous system, as well as the skin.

So it kind of envelops us, and then the mesoderm is going to become the muscles, and then the endoderm is going to become connective tissues and other types of tissues.

But all of this is groups of cells that are differentiated.

So eventually we end up with this magnificent human brain.

The human brain is divided into two hemispheres.

So the primary difference between a reptile and a mammal is the addition of our emotional system called the limbic system.

So reptiles don't have emotions, mammals have emotions, and the primary difference between typical mammals and the human is this explosion of thinking cerebral cortex.

So we humans, we have four major modules of cells inside of our head, two emotional, evenly divided between the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere, and then two thinking modules of cells, the right thinking and the left thinking.

And most of us have heard, oh, the right hemisphere is emotional and the left hemisphere is thinking.

And that's simply not true anatomically.

Anatomically, we have two emotional and two thinking modules of cells.

So the primary difference then between the right and the left for me when I lost my left hemisphere was I lost one linearity across time.

So somehow or another, these amazing cells step out of the consciousness of the present moment.

I mean, to me, this is the mind blower.

How did they even do that, right?