For the abstraction assets of the left hemisphere, the meanings of language are stipulated. They are, approximately, flat, mondimensional and linear. They are 99.9% denotation.

“Grind me up some hurricane dresses, I have a plantation cruncher.”

The AALH breaks this down into fragments. It cannot understand hurricane dresses, or their relation to grinding. It understands possession, and plantations, and crunchers, but not possessing plantation crunchers. It is frustrated. Possibly angry. Someone is playing a trick on it. This is possibly offensive, but in any case probably egregious. It wants nothing to do with this.

But the empathy assets of the right hemisphere see in this an invitation to something approximately like play-learning. It leaps from the cliffs of intuition and imagination into the -relational- possibilities prefigured by its take on the language, which it experiences not as a linear, monodimensional, string of words or events, but as figurative invitations that invite creative evocation as inward experience.

Each word, sound or phrase becomes a constellation of connotations, a starburst of concrete -and- fuzzy associations, new, unique each time, alive…each phrase an invitation to something we might understand as an experience of the visualized and emotionally informed elaboration of possible meanings from what otherwise appears relatively static in terms of form, identity, and structure. From the linear we get an elaborate and highly charged web of potential, play, imagination, visualization, possible rather than actual meaning, general invitation rather than specified deliveries.

So we must be careful before we choose roles or invoke institutions governed too strictly by the literal. Including minds. They will, divorced from their proper grounding in their deeper opposite, by their nature, discard nearly all of what is real, and most of what is or can become alive.