Left/Right Brain: bedah pikir

Kerap dibedakannya antara otak kanan dan otak kiri, ini pandangan yang berbeda kali yah.

The TrueTalk Blog: Left/Right; Think/Blink; Exploit/Explore; Calculate/Meditate: "I spent a lot of time in the 70s reading existential and phenomenological philosophy while studying psychology at Duquesne University (we were an odd bunch). A good many of those hours were spent reading the work Martin Heidegger. Very interesting thinking; very difficult going. One little book, Discourse on Thinking, was particularly interesting, and difficult.

In it, Heidegger makes a distinction between calculative and meditative thinking. The former is our typical 'right brain' oriented approach, in which we view the world as objects to be analyzed and manipulated.

Meditative thinking is a more difficult and cryptic enterprise. It requires patience (not 'waiting for' exactly, since that puts us into a mindset that is anticipatively anxious and very close to calculative), and a lingering persistence; the courage to 'dwell' in the presence of the world. Heidegger called this releasement towards things and openness to the mystery. It is 'focused' on the transcendent; a way of getting to the invisible side of the visible."