“Stalemate: How the alternating dominance of superior cognitive hemispheric bi-polarization is capable of neutralizing thought productivity.”

“Stalemate:  How the alternating dominance of superior cognitive hemispheric bi-polarization is capable of neutralizing thought productivity.”

It is further to be considered that hemispheric bi-polarization is quite often miss-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 its 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 is 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.