...... parts of the brain on the right side typically have more to do with certain processes that the brain does which I was speaking about. and the left brain typically does certain things that are more useful for other processes which you could include logic in, because logic seems to be linked to individual pixel kinds of thoughts as opposed to big picture but fuzzy kinds of thoughts. at least that is what I get from most people who think they are logical. so probably the idea of logic for many is really only a certain kind of subset of logic or thinking.
logic uses both but I don't know a clear line between "logical thinking" and "symbolic thinking". most religious and atheist people don't seem to have a very good sense of symbolic thinking, probably because it is underdeveloped in them due to them focusing on working on other processes of the brain since the modern world tends to focus more on certain kinds of thinking. but the two have some differences.
I appreciate the perspective that a Professor Jordan Peterson brings to the evolution of the hemispheric brain. The left hemisphere is adapted to best deal with the aspects of our universe that are known and knowable. For example, if we got ten pieces of candy and three people to share it with, this is a problem of logic. Processes of the left brain can fix that kind of problem.
But the greater part of our world is unknown, and even unknowable. And what we do not know, what lurks in the shadows and the dark recesses that lie ahead, can very much hurt us. That is information that needs to be processed too, and beings who have evolved mechanisms to deal with the unknown are more adapted to survival in the world as it is, than beings that have not developed such mechanisms.
As important as engineers are to this society, so too do artists have an instrumental roles to play. Good art is at least as necessary as good bridges. It is the artist who is capable of preparing us for tomorrow's world of the unknown through drawing out and presenting us with the hidden truths that are yet hidden around the next bend, and then creatively presenting those truths to us symbolically so that we are better able to anticipate what lies ahead. A whole half of the human brain has been adapted to deal with creating and understanding the type of information that has been designed to understand the unknown, the world that has not yet materialized in front of us.
People have a whole hemisphere of the brain dedicated to dealing with the world of the unknown, the world that lies just beyond the ability of our rational brains to grasp.
The Bible and religion in general are systems developed over the millennia that deal with exactly that, that is, with the unknown world and the unknowable.
"Just the facts ma'am, nothing but the facts" is an attitude that leaves us uniquely unprepared.
Because what we don't know is even more ominous and deadly than what we do know.
