Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
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So mammals have other forms, but we have this higher executive functioning.
And in the right hemisphere, it's right here, right now.
And in the left hemisphere, it's all about me.
Because in there, in that thinking, is my ego center, in that prefrontal region.
I, me, I exist.
Back here, orientation, association area.
I begin and I end here.
This is the package of me, the individual.
I have a language.
I can create language.
I can understand language.
I can read.
I can write.
I have mathematics in there.
And this motor system controls the opposite side of my body.
So that's a personality.
Okay.
So I, when I look at a brain and this is totally randomly named, um, and I did that because I had to communicate about it somewhere.
So I call left thinking character one.
And I actually give that part of my brain a name.