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The Right "Animal" brain

The right brain is the "animal brain" and analyzes the environment for all the sights and sounds useful for survival. In essence, animals are 100% "right-
brained." Humans have kept the animal talents on the right side, but have modified the left brain for language and tool use.

The following is a summary of talents found in the right brain. Each talent is a complex network of different processes beyond what is mentioned here, but
injuries or strokes in these areas would result in serious loss of these specific talents.

Vision

Animals must be very concerned about their visual environment, both for food and danger. Therefore, this area is one of the oldest and best developed areas
of the brain. Most animals can see shape, colour, motion perception, depth perception, etc.

Humans have added left-brain symbolic meaning to the visual images, such as the word "rabbit" in the left brain to match the image in the right brain, or an
art critic trying to analyze the meaning in a Picasso painting.

The Spatial Sense

The spatial sense helps animals see objects in their mind, the "Minds Eye." For example:

(A) The Object-Spatial sense allows animals to "rotate" an object in their mind, imagining what it looks like from different angles.

This is very useful to a cat to analyze where a mouse is hiding, mentally consider the mouse's path, and decide where to sit to be in the best position to
ambush it.

Human craftsmen use this talent extensively to build houses, design jewellery, fix cars, etc. (In your mind, imagine opening the door of the cabinet under the
kitchen sink -- what would you see?) This part of the brain is also used by humans to juggle math symbols for mental math (calculate "608 x 22 =" in your
mind).

(B) The Navigational-Spatial sense allows animals to keep track of where they are in a larger environment, using the spatial relationship of landmark clues.
Bees can fly home in a "bee-line" using the sun as a landmark, even compensating for changes in the angle to the sun as it changes within a few minutes
during the time they are in the hive or on the flowers. In the hive, scout bees symbolically translate their navigational knowledge into the language of dance -
- different movements are "read" by other bees telling them what direction the new flowers are in relation to the sun's angle, how far away they are, and how
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