“The dog ran across the field in the afternoon.”

The abstraction assets primarily constellated in the left hemisphere take this statement and produce from it a skeleton: [thing or agent] [action] [where] [time]. This is extremely useful in narrow contexts involving solving peculiar forms of problems. Outside of that context it is catastrophic. As an arbiter of reality it is about as sophisticated as a spoon comprised of hardened excrement.

The associated empathic (being-into) assets primarily constellated in the right hemisphere have an entirely different take on this, and it is emoto-visual more than it is comprised of tokens, formal identities, and specified relationships:

“I am the dog, the soul of the sky, of all dogs, of all beings, I am their dream! And I run, I explode, I am the light and the wind, we are the music of forever… in the afternoon of green words and subtle aromas, the sound of the rushing air is the god of our lightning, and we strike with each pass or movement, the land falling away behind me as though we were about to take to the sky and retrieve the heart we have hidden there.”

This form of participation is the foundation of the other form, and is the single most useful heuristic in all of nature. To ‘feel into ‘ the being, situations, contexts, threats, opportunities and signals of a place, being, situation or figure is the fundamental basis of meaning and intelligence themselves. This is useful in nearly every context, and manages a wide range of survival-critical background activities involved in proprioception, error promotion (correction), and crucial aspects of symmetry-breaking that turn ordinary representational skills and outcomes into incredibly focused frameworks and applications.

Both are necessary. But the wrong one is trying to be god, and it is actually too crude to even be a tool on its own. Frankly, if it wins? Everything turns to bones and models.

Especially the hearts we had hidden together, in the sky.