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Jumping right into our inner child talk

for tonight, around 1900 1900 little before both William James and Freud in their

own way produced very coherent, clear descriptions of subconscious, unconscious processes that had in many ways predominance over the logical rational conscious mind and both in

their own ways from their own empirical research

documented the degree of influence

that unconscious, we could call automatic or implicit processes held over decision-making, over times in life

where we act in ways that are completely contrary to our intentions, why we even have at times

physiological emotional experiences that seem to be self-sabbataging.

Now, for a long time, this recognition of the unconscious was essentially based on observation but didn't really have any

foundations in neuroscience that actually came to a fundamental pivot in the 1960s where there were a bunch of patients

with extreme cases of epilepsy and in those cases were addressed by a radical procedure wherein the corpus

colossum which is the thin neural fibers that connect the right hemisphere with the left hemisphere for integration.

Corpus Colossus was cut, severed.

Epileptic fits would stop, but in place there were a whole raft of symptoms that were rather extraordinary

which pointed directly to the idea that each hemisphere of the brain had different functions, had different roles. The left

hemisphere is typically the dominant hemisphere which is the host of

language. There is language function in the right, but primarily language,

especially the language we use to communicate thoughts and ideas is left hemispheric.

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