MU194 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Coping With, Cerebral Cortex
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Students learn to cope with what appear to be contradictory concepts or instructions. Philosophical explanation for such paradoxical situations is that opposites represent the extremes of reality which must be integrated and balanced in everything we do. Extremes or opposites of thought and action manifested in many ways. Science and art, form and content, idealism and realism, product or process. We simply accept the fact they exist and strive to reconcile and integrate them throughout learning process. The mark of a first rate mind is that ir can maintain two contradictory ideas at one time. Applies in every way to art and craft of singing. Male and female, republication and democrat, urba and rural, treble and bass. Humans have incredible capacity to live with contradiction and yet find harmony in life. Human brain is equipped to handle complexity and ambiguity. 2 distinct regions of the cerebral cortex function independently by processing info differently.
