Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

You eat a different kind of food that smells different.

My right hemisphere says, oh, you're different.

I am curious about you.

I want to know you better.

So to me, racism really boils down to the circuitry because every ability we have is because we're wired to be that way.

But there is a whole half of the boomers who...

Okay, because we are taught by society, by the traditional medical world, that only a quarter of our brain is conscious, then that leaves three quarters of our brain as unconscious.

Okay, well, now you have a brain scientist

who was at Harvard teaching and performing research about how does our brain create our perception of reality and wiped out her left thinking tissue, which was the conscious part, and wiped out the left emotion, wiped out the right emotion.

So all I had left was the right thinking tissue.

So that's all I had.

So I learned, well, in the absence of all that, those other cells, this is what's going on here.

And then once I had surgery and I could then begin to function again and hold some energy inside of my body so I could actually learn something, then I regained the skill sets of the right emotional tissue.

So I'm really clear.

That was very different.

That portion of who I am, that is a whole different level of consciousness.

And then it's like, okay, well, if I'm going to function like a normal human being in society, I have to get my language back.

And so I used my right brain to rebuild my

the skill sets that I knew that I had lost because I was a neuroanatomist after all.

Because I could still visualize the language circuits.