ABSTRACT
The unusual implications concerning lateral specialization aside, the mirror-image negative mechanism of information transfer may be a fundamental mechanism of information transmission in the brain – a fundamental part of the 'brain code.' Specifically the fact that each of the three most fundamental natural systems known to science – the atom, the cell and the animal organism – makes use of a dual control structure seems to be an important principle of natural organization. A dichotomy of control is most easily seen in the atomic system, which is regulated by the two forms of nucleon, the proton and neutron. The central dogmas of molecular biology and atomic physics are concerned with more than nuclear functions. Although strictly speaking scientific advances in this realm have been infrequent, a wide range of empirical findings in normal and abnormal psychology has been related to differences in function of the cerebral hemispheres.
