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Spotlight on Marshall McLuhan #4: Media, Culture & the Human Mind

Spotlight on Marshall McLuhan #4: Media, Culture & the Human Mind

Episode 74 Published 5 years, 5 months ago
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Speaker 0 (0s): Well, here we go. We are back TrueLife podcast on Thursday, Thursday to Thursday, Thursday night. Do you remember what we were talking about? Let me refresh your memory, my friends, but before I refresh your memory, let me refresh how awesome you are. You wake up, tell yourself your awesome. Give there's a little Pat on the back, you wake up in. The first thing that you thought about was something beautiful. Did you look out your window and see a rainbow? 

Oh my gosh. Look up this rainbow. It is so pretty, so many blues and purples. How about a, a little dollop, a little, a little kid walk in their dog. That's always a cool one. Right? Would be a butterfly on your shoulder. Maybe a nice whoosh, a nice calm, wind blowing over the plant's in your backyard. That's the whisper of the earth embracing you. 

Something like that. Right I'm not sure that last part flowed together. Like I wanted it to Well now, I guess I can refresh your memory. We we're doing a spotlight on mr. Marshall McLuhan and I left off, you know, where I left you. I left off at East meets West and the hemispheres, not just on our planet, but in our brain, right at the left hemisphere on the right hemisphere, we have the orient meets the Oxidental. 

You know what that makes me think of, you know, the town and country symbol, or at least that's what we call it in Hawaii or The I think more accurately its the yin and the yang, you know, it's a circle with a black Paisley in a white Paisley with the white Paisley has a little black.in it. And the black Paisley has a little white.in it. Think about that symbol for a minute. It's a really powerful symbol. One cannot exist without the other in it seems they are always flowing together and that pattern of the yin and the yang be it male and female or left brain, right brain. 

It seems to be a pattern of behavior as well as a symbol of what's happening. Think about our political parties in the U S aren't. They always like morphing into the other one. Like the Republican's are becoming the Democrats, Democrats are become when the Republicans of a concern become when the Democrats is just so symbolic of this circle of life, then the cycle of life in the more that I think about the symbol, the more that I realize how powerful that actually is, is really a mesmorizing to think about it. 

And I think it fits nicely here with this East meets West and the hemispheres. I just can't. It just seems so strange to me. The way our brain is constructed is also the way the world is constructed or is it because our brain is constructed one way. That's how we see the world. That's probably more accurate in a previous podcast. I talked about the similarities between supply chains and neural networks. 

Speaker 1 (3m 56s): I just 

Speaker 0 (3m 58s): It's one of those things that really gets me. I, I, I don't think we can really create anything in the outer world. That's not already is something that's been hardwired into us, but I'm kinda getting out into the muddy waters. Let's bring it full circle back to the brain and some of the Marshall McLuhan's ideas about processing information in the brain. So the brain on the outside as a, in a way in a grossly anatomical way, the brain appears to be what it seems Walnut like and symmetrical covered all over with convoluted fishers designed to give more tissue area. 

But underneath within that three pounds of whitish mush is a seeding electrochemical masse, which has the power to functio

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