Bridge Across Consciousness
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The Bridge

The Bridge Across Consciousness is a design for integrating the conceptual levels of human thinking through a single spectrum. It connects "the one" to "the many", across a series of descending levels of abstraction that extends from the transcendent to the empirical.

This framework can interpret the entire structure of the human mind and all the branches and departments of knowledge. This page reviews the major features of this concept, linking the parallel processing and transcendence of the right brain to the linear and empirical thinking of the left brain, and positioning all other human cognitive activities somewhere along the spectrum between them.


LEFT BRAIN THINKING

local/empirical
part/relative
specific/particular
analytic/divergent
serial/sequential
either/or
continuous/analog
immediate
top-down
diversity
content
quantitative
differences
deductive (general to particular)

"the many"

serial/sequential processing



RIGHT BRAIN THINKING

global/abstract
whole/absolute
universal/general
synthetic/convergent
parallel/simultaneous
both/and
discrete/digital
transcendent
bottom-up
unity
form
qualitative
similarities
inductive (particular to general)

"the one"

parallel/simultaneous processing

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