ABSTRACT

This chapter describes the performance of the dominant hemisphere as a function to the ego, because now the contents of experience and behavior, speech and action, obtain a typical human form. The dominant hemisphere is geared to stimulate and induce performance of acts but it does not express the intention. The dominant hemisphere can also perform automatic acts if and when sufficiently trained by the ego. The dominant hemisphere becomes the center of a higher system when a human ego has been formed. The ego exists only in these acts. All these acts are decisions concerning information of the neural system. In 1959, W. Penfield and L. Roberts collected the relevant data and discussed it. Actually, transcendental subjectivity, with its noetic acts, can operate everywhere in the neural system if there are adequate conditions. The noetic acts are not primarily directed at the world but rather at the experiencing of the world.