Minor terminology quibble: I’m not very fond of the terms “savant” and “gossip”, I can’t really tell “which is which” :P
Savant = near mind, “subconscious mind”, “horse brain”/”robot brain” (using your other terminology)
Gossip = far mind, “conscious mind”, “monkey brain”
… though I also see the problem with re-using more accepted terms like “subconscious mind”—people already have a lot of ideas of what those mean, so starting with new terminology can work better.
Yeah, when I officially write these up, I’ll describe them as characters… thereby reusing the Gossip’s “character recognition” technology. ;-) That is, I’ll tell a story or two illustrating their respective characters.
Or maybe I’ll just borrow the story of Rain Man, since Dustin Hoffman played an autistic savant, and Tom Cruise played a very status-oriented (i.e. “gossipy”) individual, and the story was about the Gossip learning to appreciate and pay attention to the Savant. ;-)
… though I also see the problem with re-using more accepted terms like “subconscious mind”—people already have a lot of ideas of what those mean, so starting with new terminology can work better.
Right, and the same thing goes for left/right brain, etc. What’s more, terms like Savant and Gossip can retain their conceptual and functional meaning even as we improve our anatomical understanding of where these functions are located. Really, for purposes of using the brain, it doesn’t ordinarily matter where each function is located, only that you be able to tell which ones you’re using, so you can learn to use the ones that work for the kinds of thinking you want to do.
Minor terminology quibble: I’m not very fond of the terms “savant” and “gossip”, I can’t really tell “which is which” :P
Savant = near mind, “subconscious mind”, “horse brain”/”robot brain” (using your other terminology)
Gossip = far mind, “conscious mind”, “monkey brain”
… though I also see the problem with re-using more accepted terms like “subconscious mind”—people already have a lot of ideas of what those mean, so starting with new terminology can work better.
Yeah, when I officially write these up, I’ll describe them as characters… thereby reusing the Gossip’s “character recognition” technology. ;-) That is, I’ll tell a story or two illustrating their respective characters.
Or maybe I’ll just borrow the story of Rain Man, since Dustin Hoffman played an autistic savant, and Tom Cruise played a very status-oriented (i.e. “gossipy”) individual, and the story was about the Gossip learning to appreciate and pay attention to the Savant. ;-)
Right, and the same thing goes for left/right brain, etc. What’s more, terms like Savant and Gossip can retain their conceptual and functional meaning even as we improve our anatomical understanding of where these functions are located. Really, for purposes of using the brain, it doesn’t ordinarily matter where each function is located, only that you be able to tell which ones you’re using, so you can learn to use the ones that work for the kinds of thinking you want to do.