When right brain picks up a Rubik's cube because it was asked to, left brain has no knowledge of that. So when the Rubik's cube is passed into the hand controlled by left brain, how does left brain know to even receive the item? Is it acting on habit - i.e. it's so used to cooperating with left brain and body parts that it accepts things left brain offers? And in that case, is the incorrect explanation from left brain influenced by what it thinks right brain wants? For favourite colour - is each side influenced by what it thinks the other prefers?

I suspect viral marketing techniques like anthropomorphising body parts is taking away slightly from the truth. It's a fun conclusion that captures the imagination to say that there are two entities, one in thrall to the other, but we are talking about a malfunctioning brain so the conclusions need careful consideration. These type of things can be a little economical with the truth to paint a better picture, I know the physics ones are on occasion.

In anyone who doesn't have a split brain, left brain and right brain can share information through the corpus callosum. Right brain doesn't come up with the words, but it's happy to help you mash the correct keys, given a request from left brain.

I'm amazed I found exactly this question on a neuroscience blog :

http://www.neuwritewest.org/blog/2014/2/6/split-brains

but can right brain actually type? Is it it not language, not just speech, that is in the realm of the left brain?

also, my right brain is typing *promote

Left brain seems ok with this.

So, I've been thinking about conflict and rhetorical escalation. I genuinely feel bad for hurting blankfists feelings to the point that he will not speak to me, but in all honesty, I feel my comments were far less severe than his, which got me thinking about how arguments effect feelings.

There are two ways to view what is appropriate in a heated discussion.

#1) tit for tat-Code of Hammurabi-eye for an eye: If someone says something nasty to you, you say something nasty back and all is fair.

#2) Taking personal boundaries into consideration: Personal boundaries can vary greatly from person to person; some are resistant to high levels of verbal aggression, some can take very little. And, to make things more complicated, people can have different boundary tolerances between what they give and take. So in this sense, the least offensive language in the world dealt to a sensitive person could be seen as more cruel than the most offensive insult in the world dealt to someone with a high tolerance to invective.

I'm not sure which is correct - my right brain and left brain are beating the shit out of each other.

I don't like the idea of going past peoples boundaries, but at the same time, I feel that when others get exceedingly aggressive, they would be well served to experience some of that aggression turned back on them. Of course, I don't say this out loud, so the logic of it all is lost, and in the end I've just hurt someone's feelings whom I care about.

I'd love to hear more opinions on this. I think this gets at the heart of the psychology of this all. I'm also a bit high, and Netrunner says I can be incomprehensible in this state, so hopefully this comment is comprehensible.

Post Script:

#3): Always be completely polite and completely respectful, regardless of anything. This may be the way to go, but you need to be Ghandi or Mother Teresa to have the patience to pull this off.

Not quite a dupe, but here's the other one: http://videosift.com/video/The-Right-Brain-vs-The-Left-Brain

I can see it both ways with these kinds of things. But I started out seeing it clockwise and it took me almost the entire video to be able to shift to counter clockwise. Usually it's not so hard! I consider myself primarily left brained, although I do feel somewhat balanced with my right brain.

Thanks for the promote, berti!

In reply to this comment by berticus:
*promote

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by MarineGunrock.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Right-Brain-vs-The-Left-Brain

While I enjoy this illusion, I don't think it has anything to do with right/left brained people. You can easily get the dancer to switch spinning directions by focusing on the shadow and making that switch directions, then adding to your focus the moving extended foot, with the already established perception of direction of movement.

*promote... this is seriously cool, and much easier than the damn ballerina.

>> ^E_Nygma:
i'll be honest, when i clicked on the link at first, i was wondering what language it was.

i'll be equally honest: i knew what it was, without a moment's doubt.
but this had me completely fooled, the first time.

it's one of those left-brained, right-brained things.

are you kidding me? blankfist is responsible for driving me INSANE for 3 days trying to get that damn ballerina to work all proper like! ...then again, i guess he made up for it by giving me a one-word catchphrase to irritate all my friends with. congrats!

Cool illusion, but yeah, the left-brain/right-brain thing is BS. Whether you see it going clockwise or counter-clockwise has nothing to do with your brain function, intelligence, inclinations, talents, or whatever. It's just visual perception.