向左走 向右走 2.1

最簡單的例子是,一個人的「左腦」和「右腦」,各自都是一個完整的「人」。

對於正常人來說,左腦控制右邊身體,右腦控制左邊身體。左腦和右腦各自控制半個人。它們互相合作,令到一個人能夠過完整的生活。令我驚奇的是,那不是事實的全部。

我看過一輯 BBC(英國廣播公司)的記錄片,描述有一個小童(甲),因為左腦大部分的細胞壞死了,導致他不能有正常的思考,不能過正常的生活。他的家人決定讓醫生移除他左腦的大部分。手術之後,他的右半身失去了左腦的指示,暫時不能正常運作。但是,經過一連串的訓練和治療,他的右腦漸漸地接管了他整個身體的運作,包括了原本由左腦控制的右半身。還有,一般人由左腦負責語言,而甲卻失掉了左腦,本應自此口齒不清。但是,透過不斷學習,他的右腦漸漸地掌握了語言。

甲失掉左腦,結果最後卻可以過正常完整的生活。他的右腦有那麼大的可塑性,主要原因是他還是小童。小童腦部的彈性還是很大。

而我想帶出的是,根本即使是單獨一個左腦,或者是一個右腦,都有潛能掌管一個人的整個身體,負責一個人的整個生活。從這個角度看,左腦右腦各自都是一個完整的「人」。而正常人都有左腦右腦,即是正常人都至少同時有兩個「自我」:左腦和右腦。

我們可以假想一百年後,科技發達。如果你願意的話,你可以要醫生把你的右腦移植去一個機械身體,而左腦則留在原本的身體。那樣,你就由一個人變成了兩個人。

— Me@2011.03.03

2011.03.03 Thursday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

向左走 向右走

Left brain functions

Right brain functions

sequential

simultaneous

analytical

holistic

verbal

imaginative

logical

intuitive

linear algorithmic processing

holistic algorithmic processing

mathematics: perception of counting/measurement

mathematics: perception of shapes/motions

present and past

present and future

language: grammar/words, literal

language: intonation/emphasis, prosody, pragmatic, contextual

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— Wikipedia on Lateralization of brain function

— Me@2008.01.13

— Me@2022-01-23

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2011.03.03 Thursday ACHK

自我委員會

而我所講的,是「多重人格」。那不是一種病患,那是正常的。每一個人也會有多重人格,而不同人格之間可以互相溝通。互相溝通的速度高到眾多人格,長年累月以來,一直以為他們是同一個「人」。

一個人的「自我」,其實不是一個單獨的「思想意志」,而是一個由很多個委員組成的委員會。委員之間互相溝通商量,然後做出集體決定。(那是正常的。)如果委員之間各自為政,甚至互相爭奪整個委員會的控制權,那就構成「多重人格障礙」(multiple personality disorder)。(那是一種病患。)

— Me@2011.02.27

2011.02.27 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Multi-mind Begins

一個人的腦海之中,其實有超過一個「自己」。一個人其實有很多個不同「思想意志」,而每個「意志」在大部分時間下,也會以為所有不同的「意志」,是同一個「自我」。

(安:我記得有一齣戲是用這個做主題。)

不是。我估計那齣戲所講的是「多重人格障礙」(multiple personality disorder)。那是一種病患:同一個身體的多重人格之間,不能互相溝通。

而我所講的,是「多重人格」。那不是一種病患,那是正常的。每一個人也會有多重人格,而不同人格之間可以互相溝通。互相溝通的速度高到眾多人格,長年累月以來,一直以為他們是同一個「人」。

— Me@2011.02.24

2011.02.24 Thursday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK 

心海 2 C

愛情,建基於神秘感。

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有了神秘感,就可以將對方理想化。

了解太深時,一切也不理想。

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過份相熟的人之間,不會有愛情的感覺。

所以,對於一部分的人來說,結婚是愛情感覺的終結。

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減輕這個問題的方法是,保持距離。

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令到這個問題從來,不會出現的方法是,雙方都要有

1. 完整的人格  和

2. 無盡的心思。

— Me@2011.02.21

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2011.02.21 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

心海 2 E

Romantic Love depends on uncertainty.

Uncertainty allows idealization.

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No uncertainty, no idealization.

That’s why close people cannot have romantic love.

That’s why a couple’s romance keeps decreasing.

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The way to reduce this problem is to have a distance.

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The way to transcend this problem is to have

1. integrity in your heart  and

2. an infinite intellectual world in your mind. 

— Me@2011.02.17

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2011.02.20 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Memento 3 E

電腦輪迴觀 3 E

Reincarnation is a process of “Memento”.

If reincarnation does exist, the cause of most people do not know the meaning of life is that they have forgotten what has happened before their current lives.

Studying history is a good way to reduce this problem.

– Me@2011.02.15

2011.02.17 Thursday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Memento

written and directed by Christopher Nolan

Memento(凶心人),有關「遺忘症」。整套電影倒轉播,令觀眾體會到主角「沒有新記憶」的感受。

– Me@2010.08.05

2011.02.17 Thursday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Multi-mind 4

This essay is adapted from a dialogue on 2010.04.09.

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There are at least 3 dimensions of different selves:

1. time-selves

2. at a same time, there are more than one-selves,

   e.g. the Left-brain self and the Right-brain self         <– at least 2 selves

3. surface-inner selves

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Writing is a way to communicate with yourselves.

— Me@2010.04.09

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2010.12.16 Thursday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Onion self

洋蔥自我

This essay is adapted from a dialogue on 2010.04.09.

surface self

inner self

inner inner self

inner^n self

The Light = inner^n self, when n is max.

The Light = inner^{n_{max}} self

All individuals has the same Light, the same “inner^{n_max} self”.

— Me@2010.12.13

The Light = 神明

2010.12.13 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK 

Multi-mind

時間自我觀

This essay is adapted from a dialogue on 2010.04.09.

(Kinon: Your theory can explain something that “one-mind theory” cannot.)

Yes.

(Kinon: That is very interesting. You told me about “playing politics with oneself” several years ago (2003). For example, if you know that your tomorrow-self will be likely to be lazy, you present-self have to figure out how to prevent your tomorrow-self from being lazy.)

I consider self-at-different-time = different selves.

(Kinon: I understand what you mean.)

I understand what you understand.

— Me@2010.12.10

2010.12.10 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK 

潛行凶間 2

This essay is adapted from an dialogue on 2010.04.09.

“I” sometimes can feel that several (e.g. N) characters keep discussing in my dreams.

But “I” knew that, they were all within my mind.

So “I” wondered where did those characters come from.

Including “I”, I had (N+1) selves.

— Me@2010.04.09

2010.12.07 Tuesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

BBC Brain Story

As we get older, our world become more personalized, that’s why old people feel that the world is smaller.

— BBC Brain Story

Episode 1: All in the Mind
Episode 2: In the Heat of the Moment
Episode 3: The Mind’s Eye
Episode 4: First Among Equals
Episode 5: Growing the Mind
Episode 6: The Final Mystery

2010.11.20 Saturday ACHK

I am a Strange Loop

I am a Strange Loop answers the question “Who am I?”

— Me@2010.09.18

The Buddha attacked all attempts to conceive of a fixed self, while stating that holding the view “I have no self” is also mistaken. This is an example of the middle way charted by the Buddha.

— Wikipedia on Personal identity (philosophy)

2010.09.18 Saturday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

電腦輪迴觀

靈魂軟件論

自我虛級化

Self-de-centralization

當年,買了第一部電腦時,以為我會與它一生一世。

漸漸,我發現電腦會壞。即使不壞,也會過時。

所以,每隔幾年,就需要換一部新電腦。

但是,我和舊電腦分開時,不會傷感,因為在分開前,我都會把所有重要的程式和資料儲蓄下來,留待重新裝載在新的電腦中。

舊電腦的硬件雖毀,但它們軟件(程式和資料)與我常在(,只要我記得定時備份(backup)的話)。

— Me@2010.07.27

2010.07.30 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK