Re: Grip thoughts (SPOILERS)

[erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)]

Magnus Olsson (mol@bartlet.df.lth.se) wrote:
> In article <erkyrathEor1xx.Eu@netcom.com>,
> Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@netcom.com> wrote:

> >aspects of personality (abstract
> >versus verbal, or what's annoyingly labelled "left-brain" versus
> >"right-brain".)

> Unless a fit of premature senility has robbed me of my memory, I think
> that verbal/linguistic capabilites are based in the *left* hemisphere.

> So I wouldn't call the two alternative Fit 4's "math" vs. "verbal",
> but rather "math" (or "logic") vs. "intuitive" ("intuitive" for
> lack of a better catch-phrase). 

> It only just opccured to me, btw, that there is one "left-brain"
> puzzle in the "right-brain" Fit, and vice versa: I'm referring to the
> strands-and-balance puzzle and the "sloping rooms" puzzle,
> respectively. Or am I just imagining things?

Hm. I saw the word-strands as being the heart of that scene, which is why
I called it "verbal". But I guess the other puzzles didn't have much to do
with words. I think I'll argue that they all have to do with memory and 
experience.

The rough-smooth puzzle didn't fit in with the math theme, I agree. (Note
that all the other puzzles in that scene fit with one of the operations on
the plaque: translating around the granite cube, rotating the crate, and
inverting the number line.)

--Z

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