On Thinking - An Introspective View Into The Symbology Behind Duality In Our Minds
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) July 12, 2026 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22052683 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that apparent opposites such as science and religion are complementary attentions, and that holistic perception corresponds to hemispheric integration. Proposes that the pineal gland serves as a symbol of the balancing Ego and that the quieting of the self-narrating mind is a central goal. |
Abstract
A reflection on duality, arguing that science and religion, fractal and mandala, analysis and intuition are not opposites but two attentions turned upon one world — and that the felt task of seeing whole corresponds, at least by metaphor and at most by measurable correlation, to the integration of the brain's two hemispheres across the corpus callosum. It draws on split-brain research and the left-hemisphere interpreter, hemispheric asymmetry, the fractal aesthetic, Jungian psychology, the pineal gland as Descartes's seat of the soul and as a symbol of the balancing Ego — including the recent neuroscience of endogenous DMT and the dying brain — and the neuroscience of ego dissolution. Throughout it holds a deliberate seam between empirical finding and symbolic interpretation, marking in the notes wherever the two meet, and closes on the quieting of the self-narrating mind.