Science, Evolution, and the Human Brain

Originally posted by twhitehead
The article does imply that for most people the right hemisphere of
our brains is mostly inactive.
Please tell me where in the article that is implied.

And the whole idea of my original post was to get people to speculate on it.
And getting people to speculate on the implications of something that is clearly not true seems to be rather silly don't you think? Especially when you are strongly suggesting that it might be true.[/b]

The article says, I quote, "A newborn infant who has suffered severe
damage to the left side of the brain may have half of his brain removed
and grow up intellectually normal: the right hemisphere learns to do
most of the things that a whole brain can do." This is one example of
where the article implies that for most people the right hemisphere of
our brains is mostly unused or inactive.

It is not clear to me that the article was not true. It must be due
to my poor comprehensive skills.

I'm getting tired of discussing this matter and getting insulted.
So, why don't we just end the discussion and call a truce?

Originally posted by RJHinds
This is one example of where the article implies that for most people the right hemisphere of our brains is mostly unused or inactive.

It implies no such thing.
Let me give an equivalent example:
A newborn infant who is born with only one arm may grow up to be able to do most things that other people can do. Does this imply that the rest of us do not use one hand?

I'm getting tired of discussing this matter and getting insulted.
So, why don't we just end the discussion and call a truce?
OK, lets leave it here. If I have been insulting, then I apologize, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when something that seems obvious to me is not so obvious to others.

Originally posted by twhitehead
It implies no such thing.
Let me give an equivalent example:
A newborn infant who is born with only one arm may grow up to be able to do most things that other people can do. Does this imply that the rest of us do not use one hand?

[b]I'm getting tired of discussing this matter and getting insulted.
So, why don't we just end the discussion and call ...[text shortened]... es I get a bit frustrated when something that seems obvious to me is not so obvious to others.

Good enough.