It is further to be
considered that hemispheric bi-polarization is quite often mis-diagnosed as
Attention Deficit Disorder(ADD), when in fact, there is a very high level of
intense focus on the complex assemblage of a construct, and thus attention
retains it’s singularity of focus within the brain, but there is a missing
“middle ground” which if present, would be the local in which the parts are
summed and the construct is completed and presented
Manic Stability: the
effectiveness of counter-balanced hemispheric bi-polarization
A common perception is that one
with exhibitions of “talents” deriving somewhat equally from the Left and Right
hemispheres of the brain, ought to have a significant cognitive advantage over
one who is essentially polarized to the Left or to the Right. The
question that requires explanation however is: does hemispheric
bi-polarization create intellectual leverage such that the sum of the
manifested bi-polarizations are greater than the sum(of 1) unilaterally
polarized brain function? In other words, over centuries, one who
exhibited a wide array of “talents” that bridged the hemispheric gap, was often
referred to a Renaissance Man: equally capable of expertly painting a landscape
as he might be in engineering the mechanics of a watch.
There is however a counter-point
to the Renaissance Man ideal, and I shall refer to this counter-pointed
personification as the Neutralized Man: where the manic swings between the two
polar extremes creates not an abundance of diverse productivity, but instead, produces
an abundance of works, that when viewed as a sum, have little to no applied
value. Not to say that taken in isolation the workings of the Neutralized
Man are not good, great, or even ground-breaking, what I mean to say, is that
observed over time, the sum total of that which is produced by the Neutralized
Man is far less when one uses a measure of Relevant Applications. Even
more damaging is that this manic bi-polarization can in some cases, produce a
complete inability to combine the output from the Left and Right brain, yielded
nothing but 2 distinct scrapyards of half-completed works. And this is
not to say that these half completed works have no intrinsic value, but it is
to say that this value will never be realized unless the “scraps” from the cognitively
dis-intermediated stockpiles are at some point assembled into a singular,
cohesive, construct. Similarly, distributed manufacturing is off things
such as automobiles is quite common, but there always exists a functional model
of bringing the parts together in a single location for assemblage into
something of totality and value.
But what of these stockpiles of
manufactured parts, while intrinsically excellent when considered individually,
if in fact they are never brought together and assembled such that they can be
used effectively? Clearly the assembled “sum of the parts” in this case,
is worth far more than two sums, that had the potential to be assembled, but
were not, and this would remain true even if the two distinct sums were each of
significantly greater quality or quantity.
It is therefore put forth in this
paper, that the Neutralized Man, while perhaps commonly perceived, or even
expected to produce constructs of great value, may in fact demonstrate
excellence in producing parts, but lacks the necessary “centralized point of
assemblage” that is required to turn scrap into manifested value.
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