Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!htsa!fransvo
From: fransvo@htsa.uucp (Frans van Otten)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: left handed
Message-ID: <725@htsa.uucp>
Date: 24 Jan 89 19:40:52 GMT
Organization: AHA-TMF (Technical Institute), Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Inspired by the current discussion on left/right brain halves, I wonder
about left handed people:

Most people are right-handed.  This means that their left brain part is
dominant over the right brain part.  But what is different with left-
handed people ?  Is it only that the right brain part is dominant over
the left brain part ?  What would this mean for total brain operation ?
(I read in an article in this newsgroup about a man whose left and right
brain parts were no longer connected; the left part wanted to become
a draftsman, the right part wanted to race cars. The writer assumed that
if the connections between the brain-parts would have been intact, the
answer (of the total brain) would have been 'draftsman').

Or is everything swapped (functions normally performed by the right part
are performed by the left part, and vice versa) ?

Considering this, what should we think of forcing left-handed people to
write with their right hand ?  (I believe this is mainly in the past, now).
-- 
                         Frans van Otten
                         Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam
			 Technische en Maritieme Faculteit
                         fransvo@htsa.uucp