An Experience-based Note on How a Left Brain Stroke Changes ‘Cognition’

 

(Explaining why it is called ‘A Stroke of Insight’)

 

cog·ni·tion

noun: cognition

the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.

 

Quite simply, a left-brain stroke wipes out the concept of ‘being’ that comes from ‘naming’.  If I can’t recall a person’s name in my post-stroke cognitive mode, it is because the cognitive technique of ‘understanding things’ by way of ‘being’ has ‘dropped out’ or at least been seriously impacted.

 

All is not lost, however, as relational cognition INCLUDES being based cognition, as I have written about in my series of ‘Post-Stroke-Impression’ notes.  The ‘three levels of understanding’ model of Erich Jantsch covers that ground; i.e. nature, nurture and flow, … which he illustrates in terms of a person on land, swimming in the flow, and then included as a flow-feature.  These three modes of cognition in which level 1 (flow) includes levels 2 and three while level 2 includes level 3, … makes total sense to me.

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