Brain Chatter

After reading the selected readings and watching the video, I feel that the authors would only agree that thinking isn't as simple as we think it is. The context in each of these ideas show a different way of thinking. If they were to sit and talk, they might even have an educated argument because of their different ideas. One author feel there is two ways of thinking, the speaker feels that it would be better if we all used the right side of our brain to create the feeling or no worries or neutral, the third author feels that negative thinking is helpful which might be close to the last essay about how emotions work together to form our way of thought.

These are all valid ways of thinking but the ideas don’t connect, well not all of them. If I could pick which way of thinking I agree with the most, that means these authors’ research are original in relation to the others. I could argue why I agree with one author instead of the other, also showing the thoughts originality compared to the others. I only feel that, “The power of Negative Thinking” reading and “Ode to the Joy” reading is similar because they involve our emotions in a way that we can control. The reading, “This is your Brain on Art” involves the outside of the box thinking not including emotions until you think about the idea at an art museum. Lastly, Jill Bolte Taylor’s video was different by her physically talking about the brain and its two sides, no animation, and a real-life trauma that she took as a wonderful experience.