Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

[malenkiyscot]

Worth watching. For those who prefer, here's a transcript.

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

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[weinerk.livejournal.com]

Cool.
Interestingly it also correlates with TORA concepts/principles/associations of SMOL vs YAMIN; GVUROT/DINIM vs HASADIM etc

[malenkiy-scot.livejournal.com]

I thought it was the opposite - left hemisphere is for "unity" and the right is for "selfishness". Although one can always say it depends on the point of view - my left/right or the left/right of the onlooker (same as with different opinions about the order of the parshios in tefillin).

[weinerk.livejournal.com]

And what does game theory et al have to say about the state of psycho-financial tower of Babel?
http://semenych.livejournal.com/91521.html?style=mine&

[malenkiy-scot.livejournal.com]

The game theory in general says that the new-economics perspective (i.e. that free markets are perfect) is bunk. On the other hand some of its results can be interpreted as that controlling the markets is theoretically (not just practically) impossible. And in free markets things like this are always possible - and therefore will happen infinitely often.

But who says that GT models are right? One interesting example (as I've mentioned already somewhere) is that according to classical GT the fact that people vote in large elections can not be explained.