Thursday 30 October 2014

The brain is a funny thing.


The brain is a funny thing. It is who we are, our memories,  our instincts, the drives and the protective warning mechanisms. Its also, through its design a complicated method of defining how we think and behave, how we define right and wrong.
The left side is the reasoning side, the logic side, the analytical side. The right hand side of the brain is the part where we have our artistic sensitive side where our feelings develop sometimes in conflict with the rational of our left. All this in one head, no wonder we are so confused, so at odds with our selves sometimes in conflict, one minute happy one minute sad. The character of a person is dependent on the mix, which side is dominant which is submissive perhaps always in conflict a bit of both, swinging this way and that depending on the chemistry.
Its a bit undermining to learn that we are so dependent on chemicals which effect our moods and thoughts generally. We see ourselves as rational individuals always able to reason and decide our course of action and yet we are nothing much more than a string of letters recognisable as a class by the academic. If our free will is nothing more than an electrical impulse which triggers the chemical compound mix in certain sections of the brain then the human codification that has developed since Plato, of right and wrong, good and bad, moral or immoral lies outside the brains chemistry and is more social than human. As individuals we can be at odds with society due to no fault of our own other than the chemistry in our brains and the ties that bind us to the society are tenuous to say the least ?    

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