[MD] Arlo

[ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR]

[Ian]
Clearly short-hand naming of groups can be misused...

[Arlo]
Clearly.

[Ian]
... different people have different propensities to mental styles that use the different halves.

[Arlo]
No. The research says exactly otherwise. The research says specifically that 'mental styles' ARE NOT lateralized. I understand this will take some time before pop-psychologists and self-help gurus are able to accept the research, but its embarrassing to see this repeated here over and over. 

What IS lateralized, Ian, are things like 'language' which tends... FOR EVERYONE... to be left-lateralized. 

Do people have varying aptitudes, skills, abilities, interests, proficiencies, goals, talents...? Gee, of course they do. Are people brought up in a culture where science and art are not only divorced but antagonistic? Of course. Has 'art' been devolved in our schools by capital interests to a zero-value commodity? Of course. This was the problem space of ZMM.

Rather than normalize or naturalize 'classical' versus 'romantic' modes of thinking, and rather than then trying to invoke faulty pop-psychology to imprint this distinction onto the biological level, maybe you and John should join every one else here in the solution space, where Pirsig's goal was to problematize this artificial distinction- as derivative of SOM thinking- and unite/fuse these two at the basic level.