Sunday, January 29, 2017
January 30 Blog
In Jill Taylor's TED talk, she discusses her experience of having a stroke in great detail, so great that I was visualizing every aspect of it. Both the article and the video discuss how people think. The article talks about bottom-up and top-down thinking while Jill talks about right and left thinking. Bottom-up and top-down thinking, I believe, are the more descriptive types of thinking, the type of thinking you would use to look at art and not your day to day life. Right and left thinking is more common for a person, because the brain is split into both the right hemisphere and the left. In reality, people use both sides of the brain, but each side has its different "features." The left side keeps people in check, it's the logical side of the brain that keeps everything organized while the right side is the creative side, that goes outside the box. If Jill Taylor and Noah Charney were put in a room together to discuss their view points, it would be quite interesting. Both have different opinions about the mind and have different ways of thinking. Talking to each other would also be a learning experience for them, both learning new sides to the learning spectrum and maybe even rethinking some of their studies. If I were to sit in the same room with them I would have so many questions, especially for Jill. I would like to know more about her experience of having a stroke, and hear more in detail what it was like being in Nirvana.
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Nice Post Bruh! I totally agree with everything you just said! Like when she was having her stroke i was like AHHHH she finna die but she pulled through. She was so descriptive of her stroke it almost sounded like she was on an acid trip when she was talking about how when she was leaning on the wall and her arm was basically melting into the wall and she didn't know where her arm ended! THAT WAS NUTS!
ReplyDeleteI think that your article makes a good point about both of the authors learning from each other and that they can contribute both of their ideas towards understanding how our brains work. I also agree that Charney would be in awe at Taylor’s experience of having a stroke and being in nirvana, because I am too. I think that there are differences in Taylor’s and Charney’s Ideas but also similarities that they can learn from. Charney can relate to Taylor’s left brain being more analytical with his “top down” thinking as they both use prior knowledge and vice versa for right brain and “bottom up” thinking. Through your article I can see the differences and similarities of both of the authors and how they can learn together.
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