From: pixy@yabbs
To: hawke@yabbs
Subject: re: boundaries
Date: Wed Apr 27 21:15:42 1994

labeling is a very left-brained activity. To say that labeling is done 
because the mind can't really understand something is misleading. Labeling 
is the only way the left hemisphere of the brain can understand anything 
at all. YOu see, the left brain thinks in a very linear fashion. lines of 
hierarchy, grouping many thisgs with some similarity into one heading, 
symbolic understandings are all the products of the left brain. This 
explains why language is handled by the left brain. it also explains why 
the left brained have so much trouble drwing--when you try to draw someone 
using your left brain, you come out with little better than a stick 
figure. 
     So, labeling and classification are not at all wrong--in fact they 
are very natural. But like Jasonlee said, you have to examine your 
labeling system to understand how you see the world and maybe how others 
see the world. But also you should take the right brain approach to the 
world everyonce and a while in order to check the power of the left brain. 
pixy