pdp1 on sun 24 jul 11
Hi James,
Interesting, but indeed, kinda hard to draw much for conclusions, given how
many unassayed variables would be present, but, likely about as you say,
anyway, alleviation of collusional or introjected and suppressive
impediments, by one means or another, whether or not 'located' in what
neural material as was mechanically lost...and or presence of new and
permission-affirming influences, mirroring, and so on.
There are quite a few instances of people, Athletes tend to be the ones who
make the news with this, who for having a pretty good whallop on the Head,
come to, and speak a Language entirely foreign to them, which they were
never
exposed to to learn, and, having forgotton their 'own' Language...and
usually this takes a while to find someone who also speaks the 'new'
Language, to be sure it is not just gibberish.
However do we account for that?
I myself have been whallopped on the Head a few times, but it never changed
anything...no new skills, no change in skills present...never missed a
beat...made no difference at all.
I am not sure how that should be interpreted.
There was a gal in the news some while back, who's boyfriend shot her at
close range with a .44 Magnum, as she was sitting on a couch. He shot her
right through the forehead, as she was facing him.
Anyway, Cops show up, Paramedics, and she is sitting there on the Couch
somewhat dazed but conscious.
Bullet entered the middle of her Forehead, went right betwen the
Hemispheres, contusing them to some degree I am sure, and, exited through
the rear of her Skull, going into or throug the Wall behind her.
Might have been a .44 Special chambered into a .44 Magnum Revolver, but,
regardless...
Apparently her recovery was unremarkable and nothing was noticed to have
been lost for Cerebral or other function.
Wow...
Eeeesh!
The Brain is quite mysterious...
Old dishonest 'Abe' Lincoln was kicked in the Head by a Horse when still a
young man...in some images of him, you can see the big deficit or 'Dent' in
his Head.
This is thought to have obliterated his Frontal Lobes...one side more than
the other probably...but I forget now which side the injury favored.
Judging by his conduct and all round deceit and shennanigans and his histor=
y
and methods in politics, I would think that conclusion to be consistent.
Long ago I decided that that whole J.W. Booth matter was just more
plays/ploys by Lincoln's New York Money Lender Backers and soon to be
'reconstruction' crooks who by that point, felt Lincoln's timely exit was a
lot better for them, than Lincoln's probable probable trial and Public
Hanging and the attending Public Scruitiny about what had gone on, and,
among whom...lest they too swing from the Gallows.
I never bought the story of Booth being some Southern Sympathiser - I figur=
e
he was a hit man for the New York Banking and Contracting and looting
cartels.
"Follow the Money"...
Anyway...rambley...
Phil
Lv
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Freeman"
> Read a very interesting article yesterday about a young lady from
> Russia, Taisia
> Sidorova. Her entire life, she displayed absolutely no artistic abilitie=
s
> or aspirations. At the age of 18 she was involved in a horrific
> automobile
> accident which destroyed the left side of her skull, and ultimately
> required
> the complete removal of the entire left hemisphere of her brain, which wa=
s
> mangled beyond redemption.
>
> Following a very protracted recovery, Taisia began to draw, and then to
> paint, which she had never been able to do before. These are not sploosh=
y
> abstract sorts of things that require little skill beyond a vague sense o=
f
> color and visual balance, but actual paintings. Of things. They are
> really
> quite good, and according to the article she continues to make progress.
>
> As most of you know, in a normal human bicameral brain, the right
> hemisphere
> controls creativity, artistic ability, intuition, emotions, and other suc=
h
> "soft" thought processes. The left hemisphere is the rational side. It
> controls reason, logic, analysis, speech and language, and related "hard"
> processes. The writer of the article implies that Taisia developed
> artistic
> ability following her hemispherectomy, but I do not believe this to be th=
e
> case. A more logical conclusion is that the artistic abilities and
> creativity were always in place within Taisia's brain, but they were
> blocked
> or suppressed by her dominant left hemisphere. The reasoning part of our
> brain, the left hemisphere, very often prevents us from doing something
> out
> of fear of looking foolish, or saying the wrong thing, or appearing
> undignified. In short, it seems that inhibition rests in the left
> hemisphere, and it is this powerful inhibition, rather than a lack of
> talent
> or ability, which keeps us from living and performing to our potential.
> Once this inhibition is removed, surgically in Taisia's case, inherent an=
d
> pre-existing talents, abilities, and desires are freed, and creativity
> blossoms.
>
> How many things do we deny ourselves, though we really do desire them, du=
e
> solely to the tyranny of our own insecurities and inhibitions? Would we
> all
> be artists if we could somehow turn off that part of our brain that
> worries
> about what others might think or how we might appear?
>
> Just something I have started to think about. Not really fleshed out yet=
,
> but I thought it might prove interesting to at least a few folks. Here i=
s
> a
> link to the entire article:
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2017309/Taisia-Sidorova-21-lose=
s-half-brain-car-crash-gains-new-artistic-ability.html
>
> Enjoy your evening.
>
> ...James
>
> James Freeman
>
> "...outsider artists, caught in the bog of their own consciousness, too
> preciously idiosyncratic to be taken seriously."
>
> "All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I shoul=
d
> not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed."
> -Michel de Montaigne
>
> http://www.jamesfreemanstudio.com
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesfreemanstudio/
> http://www.jamesfreemanstudio.com/resources
James Freeman on sun 24 jul 11
Read a very interesting article yesterday about a young lady from
Russia, Taisia
Sidorova. Her entire life, she displayed absolutely no artistic abilities
or aspirations. At the age of 18 she was involved in a horrific automobile
accident which destroyed the left side of her skull, and ultimately require=
d
the complete removal of the entire left hemisphere of her brain, which was
mangled beyond redemption.
Following a very protracted recovery, Taisia began to draw, and then to
paint, which she had never been able to do before. These are not splooshy
abstract sorts of things that require little skill beyond a vague sense of
color and visual balance, but actual paintings. Of things. They are reall=
y
quite good, and according to the article she continues to make progress.
As most of you know, in a normal human bicameral brain, the right hemispher=
e
controls creativity, artistic ability, intuition, emotions, and other such
"soft" thought processes. The left hemisphere is the rational side. It
controls reason, logic, analysis, speech and language, and related "hard"
processes. The writer of the article implies that Taisia developed artisti=
c
ability following her hemispherectomy, but I do not believe this to be the
case. A more logical conclusion is that the artistic abilities and
creativity were always in place within Taisia's brain, but they were blocke=
d
or suppressed by her dominant left hemisphere. The reasoning part of our
brain, the left hemisphere, very often prevents us from doing something out
of fear of looking foolish, or saying the wrong thing, or appearing
undignified. In short, it seems that inhibition rests in the left
hemisphere, and it is this powerful inhibition, rather than a lack of talen=
t
or ability, which keeps us from living and performing to our potential.
Once this inhibition is removed, surgically in Taisia's case, inherent and
pre-existing talents, abilities, and desires are freed, and creativity
blossoms.
How many things do we deny ourselves, though we really do desire them, due
solely to the tyranny of our own insecurities and inhibitions? Would we al=
l
be artists if we could somehow turn off that part of our brain that worries
about what others might think or how we might appear?
Just something I have started to think about. Not really fleshed out yet,
but I thought it might prove interesting to at least a few folks. Here is =
a
link to the entire article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2017309/Taisia-Sidorova-21-loses-=
half-brain-car-crash-gains-new-artistic-ability.html
Enjoy your evening.
...James
James Freeman
"...outsider artists, caught in the bog of their own consciousness, too
preciously idiosyncratic to be taken seriously."
"All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should
not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed."
-Michel de Montaigne
http://www.jamesfreemanstudio.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesfreemanstudio/
http://www.jamesfreemanstudio.com/resources
paul gerhold on mon 25 jul 11
Actually everyone of these types of stories turn out to be untrue or
misrepresentations of fact when independently investigated. Fairy tales ar=
e
fun too but should'nt be taken too seriously.
Pau
On Sunday, July 24, 2011, pdp1 wrote:
> Hi James,
>
>
>
> Interesting, but indeed, kinda hard to draw much for conclusions, given
how
> many unassayed variables would be present, but, likely about as you say,
> anyway, alleviation of collusional or introjected and suppressive
> impediments, by one means or another, whether or not 'located' in what
> neural material as was mechanically lost...and or presence of new and
> permission-affirming influences, mirroring, and so on.
>
>
> There are quite a few instances of people, Athletes tend to be the ones
who
> make the news with this, who for having a pretty good whallop on the Head=
,
> come to, and speak a Language entirely foreign to them, which they were
> never
> exposed to to learn, and, having forgotton their 'own' Language...and
> usually this takes a while to find someone who also speaks the 'new'
> Language, to be sure it is not just gibberish.
>
>
> However do we account for that?
>
>
> I myself have been whallopped on the Head a few times, but it never
changed
> anything...no new skills, no change in skills present...never missed a
> beat...made no difference at all.
>
> I am not sure how that should be interpreted.
>
>
> There was a gal in the news some while back, who's boyfriend shot her at
> close range with a .44 Magnum, as she was sitting on a couch. He shot her
> right through the forehead, as she was facing him.
>
> Anyway, Cops show up, Paramedics, and she is sitting there on the Couch
> somewhat dazed but conscious.
>
> Bullet entered the middle of her Forehead, went right betwen the
> Hemispheres, contusing them to some degree I am sure, and, exited through
> the rear of her Skull, going into or throug the Wall behind her.
>
>
> Might have been a .44 Special chambered into a .44 Magnum Revolver, but,
> regardless...
>
>
> Apparently her recovery was unremarkable and nothing was noticed to have
> been lost for Cerebral or other function.
>
>
> Wow...
>
> Eeeesh!
>
>
> The Brain is quite mysterious...
>
>
> Old dishonest 'Abe' Lincoln was kicked in the Head by a Horse when still =
a
> young man...in some images of him, you can see the big deficit or 'Dent'
in
> his Head.
>
> This is thought to have obliterated his Frontal Lobes...one side more tha=
n
> the other probably...but I forget now which side the injury favored.
>
> Judging by his conduct and all round deceit and shennanigans and his
history
> and methods in politics, I would think that conclusion to be consistent.
>
> Long ago I decided that that whole J.W. Booth matter was just more
> plays/ploys by Lincoln's New York Money Lender Backers and soon to be
> 'reconstruction' crooks who by that point, felt Lincoln's timely exit was
a
> lot better for them, than Lincoln's probable probable trial and Public
> Hanging and the attending Public Scruitiny about what had gone on, and,
> among whom...lest they too swing from the Gallows.
>
> I never bought the story of Booth being some Southern Sympathiser - I
figure
> he was a hit man for the New York Banking and Contracting and looting
> cartels.
>
>
> "Follow the Money"...
>
>
> Anyway...rambley...
>
>
>
> Phil
> Lv
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Freeman"
>
>> Read a very interesting article yesterday about a young lady from
>> Russia, Taisia
>> Sidorova. Her entire life, she displayed absolutely no artistic
abilities
>> or aspirations. At the age of 18 she was involved in a horrific
>> automobile
>> accident which destroyed the left side of her skull, and ultimately
>> required
>> the complete removal of the entire left hemisphere of her brain, which
was
>> mangled beyond redemption.
>>
>> Following a very protracted recovery, Taisia began to draw, and then to
>> paint, which she had never been able to do before. These are not
splooshy
>> abstract sorts of things that require little skill beyond a vague sense
of
>> color and visual balance, but actual paintings. Of things. They are
>> really
>> quite good, and according to the article she continues to make progress.
>>
>> As most of you know, in a normal human bicameral brain, the right
>> hemisphere
>> controls creativity, artistic ability, intuition, emotions, and other
such
>> "soft" thought processes. The left hemisphere is the rational side. It
>> controls reason, logic, analysis, speech and language, and related "hard=
"
>> processes. The writer of the article implies that Taisia developed
>> artistic
>> ability following her hemispherectomy, but I do not believe this to be
the
>> case. A more logical conclusion is that the artistic abilities and
>> creativity were always in place within Taisia's brain, but they were
>> blocked
>> or suppressed by her dominant left hemisphere. The reasoning part of ou=
r
>> brain, the left hemisphere, very often prevents us from doing something
>> out
>> of fear of looking foolish, or saying the wrong thing, or appearing
>> undignified. In short, it seems that inhibition rests in the left
>> hemisphere, and it is this powerful inhibition, rather than a lack of
>> talent
>> or ability, which keeps us from living and performing to our potential.
>> Once this inhibition is removed, surgically in Taisia's case, inherent
and
>> pre-existing talents, abilities, and desires are freed, and creativity
>> blossoms.
>>
>> How many things do we deny ourselves, though we really do desire them,
due
>> solely to the tyranny of our own insecurities and inhibitions? Would we
>> all
>> be artists if we could somehow turn off that part of our brain that
>> worries
>> about what others might think or how we might appear?
>>
>> Just something I have started to think about. Not really fleshed out
yet,
>> but I thought it might prove interesting to at least a few folks. Here
is
>> a
>> link to the entire article:
>>
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2017309/Taisia-Sidorova-21-loses-=
half-brain-car-crash-gains-new-artistic-ability.html
<
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2017309/Taisia-Sidorova-21-loses-=
half-brain-car-crash-gains-new-artistic-ability.html
>
>>
>> Enjoy your evening.
>>
>> ...James
>>
>> James Freeman
>>
>> "...outsider artists, caught in the bog of their own consciousness, too
>> preciously idiosyncratic to be taken seriously."
>>
>> "All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I
should
>> not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed."
>> -Michel de Montaigne
>>
>> http://www.jamesfreemanstudio.com
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesfreemanstudio/ <
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesfreemanstudio/>
>> http://www.jamesfreemanstudio.com/resources <
http://www.jamesfreemanstudio.com/resources>
>
James Freeman on mon 25 jul 11
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:56 AM, paul gerhold wro=
te:
Actually everyone of these types of stories turn out to be untrue or
misrepresentations of fact when independently investigated. Fairy tales ar=
e
fun too but should'nt be taken too seriously.
Paul, Phil, others...
Read an interesting book recently on brain dysfunction, malfunction, and
injury, and the sometimes bizarre behavioral and emotional results. The
book, entitled An Anthropologist on Mars, was written by a neurosurgeon,
Oliver Sacks. Each chapter is based on one of his patients or case studies=
,
and several of them are art related.
Chapter 1 is about a commercial artist who suffered a severe blow to the
head, resulting in damage to a tiny area of his brain called the secondary
visual cortex. As a result, he completely lost the ability to perceive
color. His entire world was transformed into various shades of "dirtiness"=
,
sort of like a black and white photo, but not even black, white, and grey,
just varying degrees of sodden, leaden tonal "value".
At one point in his recovery he painted what was essentially a mass of
random, conflicting colors, which he insisted was a picture of flowers.
Viewers assumed it was an abstract painting (he had at one point been an
abstract expressionist), but he insisted it was an actual painting of
flowers. Someone finally got the idea to photograph the painting, then
photoshop it into black and white, and sure enough, proper flowers emerged
from the jumble of random colors. All he had seen when he squeezed paint
from his tubes was various tonal values, so to him a certain green, say, ma=
y
well have been a proper gradation from an adjacent purple or orange. They
also asked him to sort a pile of yarn, one strand each of 30-some different
colors. He produced four piles of random and bizarre color combinations,
which he described as 0-25% dark, 25-50% dark, and so on. I don't remember
all of the details, but do remember that for some reason all of the
extremely saturated colors ended up in the lightest pile, so there was
indeed some very odd visual processing going on.
Anyway, very interesting stuff, and I recommend the book to anyone
interested in how our brains work. I do agree with Paul though, that it
seems impossible for an injury to put something into your brain that was
never there before, such as the ability to speak a language you never heard=
,
and it would be very interesting to see an actual documented case study of
such. It seems to me that the results would instead be the release of a
previously extant but suppressed ability, or a random or unnatural
conjoining of two unrelated thoughts or abilities due to new, unnatural
neural connections (and it seems that such conjoinings would be much more
likely to be dysfunctional than useful).
Just a few thoughts.
All the best.
...James
James Freeman
"...outsider artists, caught in the bog of their own consciousness, too
preciously idiosyncratic to be taken seriously."
"All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should
not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed."
-Michel de Montaigne
http://www.jamesfreemanstudio.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesfreemanstudio/
http://www.jamesfreemanstudio.com/resources
pdp1 on tue 26 jul 11
Hi James, all,
I like Oliver Sachs.
I read his Book 'Awakenings' quite a while ago, and found it very
interesting.
The Motion Picture made of the Book was just 'okay', and took liberties of
commission and ommission which I felt were unfortunate.
The older Woman who had contracted the Encephalitis in the early 1920s, whe=
n
she herself was a young Women in her 20s, then 45 or more years later, when
Dr. Sachs had succeeded in bringing the bunch of institutionalized patients
"out" of their decades long Catatonia - the things she had to say, to me
were among the most interesting of all.
She looked around at the Shit Hole our society had become, and said "Put me
back"...
And from that point on, the mediucines no longer helped, and, she went
'back'...in spite of the valliant efforts of Dr. Sachs.
I blow her a Kiss.
Seven or so years ago I got in a sidewalk found Pigeon an old Woman had
found, brought home, and kept in a Bathtub for a few weeks where she had
gently been hand-feeding it...somehow she happened to hear about me, and we
got together and she gave me the Bird.
The Pigeon was like a 'Statue' of a Pigeon, you could hold them in any
position and they remained totally the same, rigid, no reflexes no reaction=
.
Set them on the Floor, and, come back hours later, a day later, and they ha=
d
not moved an inch.
Set them in some weird position, they would stay that way almost
indefinatley but would somehow, slowly, eventually right themself and be
standing again..
Very similar to the Catatonia induced by the Menningitis or Cerebral
Encephalitis outbreak effecting people in the early 1920s which Oliver
Sach's Book had addressed some survivors of, all those years later.
Anyway, the Pigeon it turns out could eat, ( and Drink ) if one placed a
large Tea Cup full of Seeds ( and one of Water ) right in front of her, and=
,
she
would stand there 24/7, occasionally pecking off and on, sip some Water now
and then, and, make a pyramid
of 'Picture Perfect' poops behind her, never moving an inch from the spot.
Man, could she eat! she ate four times what any other Pigeon her size
would...but, I figured she was bored, and at least that was somehting for
her to do, and, the added nutrition I figured would be good too, even thoug=
h
her weight was good from the beginning.
Time went on, a year maybe, and she improved some...I tried different
things, Nerotransmitter nourishing things, Endocrine nourishing things,
Vitamins, Herbal Teas, deep tissue massages, tried to ge El Dopa and some
other exotics but did not prevail...and, eventually she was walking around,
spirited, trotting with bright happy Eyes, and has been happy since. She ca=
n
fly, and though she only does it seldom, she flies like a Humminf Bird,
hovering up in the air, moving slowly backwards or forwards, moving
vertically up or down while staying horizontal...very surreal to see.
Her name is 'Big Girl'...and somehow all the Boy Pigeons find her
irresistable, she
is quite old and likely long since run out of Ovum for any Egg making, but
she has a certain atmosphere and palpable femininity and grace, and she has
had four different Mates since I have had her, or, since she was
feeling better, anyway, but she leaves them after a while blaming them for
the No Eggs thing... so any time I set her outside amid the Wild Pigeons fo=
r
some social time, she is constantly flirted with and heavily courted ( and
then some ) by all
the largest Wild males.
My guess is that she had a fairly rare Encephelitic expression of the
Paramyxo Viris, which is a subset of the famed Newcastle Virus...but who
knows.
Image of her napping which has always been how she spends most of her time =
-
http://inlinethumb50.webshots.com/46897/2126978170067835264S600x600Q85.jpg
Anyway...
My own opinion is that the 'Brain' would be best thought of as a Transducer=
,
rather than as a repository of information.
The Limbic System is also vitally involved in managing or processing
information and mediating/managing Body process and perception/awareness,
and we may suppose the old
Aegyptians were aware of this, for their electing the image of the Heart as
being the Symbol for the Seat of Knowledge.
The Book 'Evolution's End' comes to mind as a good read having to do
somewhat with the 'Brain' and else.
Ever read it?
Rambley...and tired of being so HOT and wilty!!!!
Yuck!!!
Lol...
Love,
Phil
L v
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Freeman"
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:56 AM, paul gerhold
> wrote:
> Actually everyone of these types of stories turn out to be untrue or
> misrepresentations of fact when independently investigated. Fairy tales
> are
> fun too but should'nt be taken too seriously.
>
>
>
>
> Paul, Phil, others...
>
> Read an interesting book recently on brain dysfunction, malfunction, and
> injury, and the sometimes bizarre behavioral and emotional results. The
> book, entitled An Anthropologist on Mars, was written by a neurosurgeon,
> Oliver Sacks. Each chapter is based on one of his patients or case
> studies,
> and several of them are art related.
>>>>> snip <<<<<
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