neuroscience and such

I took an online quiz to see how creative I was, because that is the ultimate test of knowledge.

According to this test....I am 66% Left Brained and 33% Right Brained. It also said:

Kate, you are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant and show a preference for visual learning, although not extreme in either characteristic. You probably tend to do most things in moderation, but not always. Your left-hemisphere dominance implies that your learning style is organized and structured, detail oriented and logical. Your visual preference, though, has you seeking stimulation and multiple data. Such an outlook can overwhelm structure and logic and create an almost continuous state of uncertainty and agitation. You may well suffer a feeling of continually trying to "catch up" with yourself. Your tendency to be organized and logical and attend to details is reasonably well-established which should afford you success regardless of your chosen field of endeavor. You can "size up" situations and take in information rapidly. However, you must then subject that data to being classified and organized which causes you to "lose touch" with the immediacy of the problem. Your logical and methodical nature hamper you in this regard though in the long run it may work to your advantage since you "learn from experience" and can go through the process more rapidly on subsequent occasions. You remain predominantly functional in your orientation and practical. Abstraction and theory are secondary to application. In keeping with this, you focus on details until they manifest themselves in a unique pattern and only then work with the "larger whole."With regards to your career choices, you have a mentality that would be good as a scientist, coach, athlete, design consultant, or an engineering technician. You can "see where you want to go" and even be able to "tell yourself," but find that you are "fighting yourself" at the darndest times.

I disagree...but anyway. I think that the entire concept behind neuroscience and the left and right brain theories are fascinating. The book concludes that both brain types must be used to support creativity. I think so as well..I think they do exist but its not a clear cut type, everyone is a little of both. Though the left brain seems to be defined as more analytical and the right is more artistic, its all give or take. Basically, among all of these ramblings I'm trying to say that I don't agree with the view that left brain isn't creative and right brain is, but I do think they exist to form into a unique creative foundation.

Likewise, in regards to the rest of the things mentioned in the Biology chapter, I think its slightly gross that they took Einstein's brain to study it. But its interesting to know that it isn't something that is in the brain that makes up personality or creativity. This is a weird thought, but my sister is a research psychologist..and she did a study that proved when a person died their brain lost I think 4 ounces of weight (don't quote me on the exact amount). She believes that that is the weight of someone's soul, and I think though it is a deep philosophical statement, that is where one's personality and creativity lie. I'm not saying that they're the same thing, that was disproved earlier. But all of these things are connected in a way. I think one's personality makes them more prone to do creative things...artists are obviously more prone to create "Big C" works. Some of these statements do go against the book, but that is just my two cents on everything.

- Kate Lawrence