Conclusion

 

As mentioned previously, the classical / quantum-level dichotomy is the puzzle of the century. Reality as we see it at the classical level is definite, concrete, and logical. Quantum physics, however, pictures a quite different reality, a multi-factual reality full of uncertainties and classically illogical and unacceptable features. The left-brain/right-brain dichotomy may provide the answer and suggest an acceptable solution for the puzzle. Above, I tried to speculate on a hypothesis and offer some clues. Once again, I have to mention that this is a simplification of the actual hemispheric functions. Brain physiology is a complex discipline that is still under ongoing investigation to uncover the mysteries of mind. Although this concept is in its infancy and lacks the graces of a fully developed theory, it has the potential to answer many of the major questions of the century, and therefore it deserves open discussion and debate.

 

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Notes

1- Since 1996 Turin has been the leading proponent of the vibration theory of olfaction. The theory proposes that a molecule's smell character is due to its vibrational spectroscopy in the infrared range. The theory is opposed to the more widely accepted shape theory of olfaction, which proposes that the vibrational spectroscopic properties of molecules can be an important determinant of their associated smell. See Absolute Astronomy, “Luca Turin,” http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Luca_Turin#encyclopedia.
2- Thomas Young's double-slit experiment showed interference phenomena where two beams of light which are coherent interfere to produce a pattern. See Wikipedia, “Interference (Wave Propagation),” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interference_pattern.
3- David Chamberlain, PhD, Cesarean Voices, “Babies Are Conscious,” http://www.eheart.com/cesarean/babies.html.
4-  Menas Kafatos and Robert Nadeau, The Non-local Universe New York  Oxford University Press, 1999).
5- M. K. Holder, “What Does Handedness Have to Do with Brain Lateralization (and Who Cares?),” http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/brain.html.
6- Roger W. Sperry, Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1981
7- Bose Einstein condensates are extremely low-temperature fluids (about zero Kelvin). In this state, different particles have no identity and cannot be distinguished from each other.
8- Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight New York, Penguin Books Ltd, New York, 2008).
9- Kafatos and Nadeau, Non-local Universe
10- Patricia J. Bauer, the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, “Oh Where, Oh Where Have Those Early Memories Gone? A Developmental Perspective on Childhood Amnesia,” http://www.apa.org/science/psa/sb-bauer.html.
11- Wikipedia, “Wave-Particle Duality,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave-particle_duality.
12- Carver Mead, Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000.
13- Sally P. Springer and George Deutsch, Left Brain/ Right Brain (New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1998)
14- Split-brain patients are the patients who have had a commissurotomy to separate their two cerebral hemispheres for therapeutic reasons.
 15- Double-slit experiment. In this experiment, electrons are passed through a barrier with two slits and reflected on an observation screen behind it. A pattern of light and dark stripes emerges that indicates wave nature of the electron. However, if we put a detector next to one of the slits to find out which slit electron as particle passed through, we just see two bands, which reflects the particle nature of electron. Therefore we observe what we are focusing at. 

16- James W. Kalat, Biological Psychology, Thompon Wadsworth, 2003