20-06-2011, 11:41 PM
Maybe someone should extend an invitation for her to join the conversation.
http://drjilltaylor.com/
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From Wikipedia:
Movie
"My Stroke of Insight" is being transformed into a major feature film: "Sony Pictures Entertainment and Imagine Entertainment have teamed on My Stroke of Insight, brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor's memoir about her journey back from a debilitating stroke. Ron Howard has signed on to the direct the film, and he wants Jodie Foster as his star. But Foster isn't formally attached at this point. But Semi Chellas is writing the script and Howard and his Imagine partner Brian Grazer are producing. The author, whose book was published last year by Plume, and Ellen Stiefler will be executive producers."[42]
[edit]Ballet
Cedar Lake Ballet Company made a ballet about My Stroke of Insight called "Orbo Novo." "The piece's title, Orbo Novo, is drawn from a 1493 reference to North America by Spanish historian Pietro Martire d'Anghiera. But the "new world" that Cherkaoui is exploring is current theories about the brain, and the text that the 17 superb dancers speak during the first moments of the 75-minute work comes from My Stroke of Insight, neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor's uncanny recollection of her stroke. The choreography is based on the ramifications of a single resonant idea: the duality between rationality (the left brain) and instinctive, sensual responses (the right brain); between control and the lack of it; between balance and instability, solitude and society." [43] "Thus were the dancers speaking Taylor's words ("My spirit soared free like a great whale gliding through the sea of silent euphoria"), while they physically embodied brain waves and misfiring synapses, with a nod, perhaps, to the double helix: rubbery splayed limbs; über-arched backs; ever-rippling torsos." [44] "Orbo Novo' is a humorous and insightful take on (Taylor's) story," said dancer Jubal Battisti. "It has a lot to do with the hemispheres of the brain switching between left and right and what that reveals." [45]
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Criticism
Some commentators, such as Vaughan Bell[46] , while often acknowledging the quality of the TED talk, have expressed criticism on its scientific content as they question the work of Nobel laureate Roger Sperry and others. Regardless of this criticism, Dr. Taylor is shifting the way the medical community looks at the ability of the brain to recover and is regularly invited by Neurological Departments all over the world to speak about the brain.
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Some critical thinking about the Jill Bolte Taylor video
http://westallen.typepad.com/idealawg/20...cal-t.html
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I'm guessing that there is something in CD's comments which parallels this, but part of my own critical thinking is to not insist all the time on logic and rationality, but to allow ample room for other ways of knowing and being.
![[Image: piberational_thumbnail.gif]](http://media.snorgtees.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/188x178/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/p/i/piberational_thumbnail.gif)
http://drjilltaylor.com/
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From Wikipedia:
Movie
"My Stroke of Insight" is being transformed into a major feature film: "Sony Pictures Entertainment and Imagine Entertainment have teamed on My Stroke of Insight, brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor's memoir about her journey back from a debilitating stroke. Ron Howard has signed on to the direct the film, and he wants Jodie Foster as his star. But Foster isn't formally attached at this point. But Semi Chellas is writing the script and Howard and his Imagine partner Brian Grazer are producing. The author, whose book was published last year by Plume, and Ellen Stiefler will be executive producers."[42]
[edit]Ballet
Cedar Lake Ballet Company made a ballet about My Stroke of Insight called "Orbo Novo." "The piece's title, Orbo Novo, is drawn from a 1493 reference to North America by Spanish historian Pietro Martire d'Anghiera. But the "new world" that Cherkaoui is exploring is current theories about the brain, and the text that the 17 superb dancers speak during the first moments of the 75-minute work comes from My Stroke of Insight, neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor's uncanny recollection of her stroke. The choreography is based on the ramifications of a single resonant idea: the duality between rationality (the left brain) and instinctive, sensual responses (the right brain); between control and the lack of it; between balance and instability, solitude and society." [43] "Thus were the dancers speaking Taylor's words ("My spirit soared free like a great whale gliding through the sea of silent euphoria"), while they physically embodied brain waves and misfiring synapses, with a nod, perhaps, to the double helix: rubbery splayed limbs; über-arched backs; ever-rippling torsos." [44] "Orbo Novo' is a humorous and insightful take on (Taylor's) story," said dancer Jubal Battisti. "It has a lot to do with the hemispheres of the brain switching between left and right and what that reveals." [45]
[edit]
Criticism
Some commentators, such as Vaughan Bell[46] , while often acknowledging the quality of the TED talk, have expressed criticism on its scientific content as they question the work of Nobel laureate Roger Sperry and others. Regardless of this criticism, Dr. Taylor is shifting the way the medical community looks at the ability of the brain to recover and is regularly invited by Neurological Departments all over the world to speak about the brain.
***
Some critical thinking about the Jill Bolte Taylor video
http://westallen.typepad.com/idealawg/20...cal-t.html
***
I'm guessing that there is something in CD's comments which parallels this, but part of my own critical thinking is to not insist all the time on logic and rationality, but to allow ample room for other ways of knowing and being.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"