Onwards with tonight's talk in the late 60s and early to middle

70s to very important neuroscientists Michael Gazaniga and Joseph Laddu did research which

produced results that to my mind were as revolutionary and as important as the work of Galileo and

Copernicus.

Now if you know Galileo and Copernicus, they essentially produce the insights that, and evidence that revealed that the sun doesn't revolve around the earth, but vice versa. Even though to common experience, it seems that the

sun revolves around the earth, it's simply because we are on the earth that we have that impression.

And of course that insight produced the much of the Renaissance and the eventual fall of the idea of God being the causative principle that would explain all of nature and eventually gave birth to Newtonian science and so forth and so on.

Now Gazanaga and Lido in their research showed that the thinking minds, the thinking

conscious mind, the inner chatter in our brain has a far less significant role than was previously

suspected.

In fact, in the past people obviously assumed as do most human beings assume that their thoughts are what create their actions.

That thought lies at the causal epicenter of our behavior

and of our moods and of our actions and of the things we feel.

We all like to believe that our thoughts are very much guiding our behavior.

And in fact, their research shows that the left hemispheric

inner chatterer, which they dubbed the interpreter plays a in terms of causing behavior

and causing emotional moods and causing our actions and our experience very little significance.

The interpreter though does have an important role, it's just not what we thought it was the

inner thought creates the sense of cohesion and the sense that there's something interior in us. of

a sense that there's something interior in us that is a self or an identity or a personality

and it creates a sense that that personality or self is somehow in control.

And actually what's going on is that much of our behaviors, our actions,

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