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This blog, about the difference between the right and left side of the brain was very interesting to me. It is the first [|blog] on my page. It first started out as an excerpt from a book about the differences between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. I have always wondered why we have the two separate hemispheres in our brain and what the purpose of each was. With the article that we read and the blog discussion that was held in response to that article, I soon had answers to these questions. The hemispheres, although practically identical, actually are very different and separate parts that work in conjunction with one another to efficiently work the human body. By reading this article I learned many new interesting facts about how our brain and our body work together to create a single fluid movement. One of the most interesting things that I did not previously know was that the right hemisphere of the brain controls the left half of the body and the left hemisphere of the brain controls the right half of the body. There were many other revelations but I found this one to be one of the most interesting just because of the crossings that occur in the brain for each side to control the opposite half of the body. Although the fact that the hemispheres in the brain control the opposite sides of the body interested me, what I found to be even more interesting was that there are still studies going on in the world about the brain and how everything works. I find it amazing that people still do not completely comprehend the brain in its entirety and that it is so complex that even the great minds we have today cannot say for sure everything that the brain is and everything that it does. I like to think that no matter how advanced our society gets there will still be some depths that we cannot comprehend and I think it would be only fitting that the brain would be one of them.