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     Often we know something at the  intellectual-rational
level,   but  behave as if we did not know it.    In  such
situations   it  is  sometimes  said  that  we  have   not
"internalized"  our intellectual-rational knowledge.   The
knowledge  does  not  seem  to  be  integrated  into   our
affective, emotional, decision-making processes.  It is as
if our being lacked integrity;  with only th intellectual-
rational  part of our being involved in the knowing,   but
not our affective,  emotional, decision-making part.   The
internalization process would thus seem to be a process of
sharing knowledge among the separate aspects of our being.
We  may wonder if there is a neurological basis  for  such
separate aspects of our being; e.g., the specialization of
the various portions of the brain into specific functions.
One portion of the brain (one aspect?)  may be specialized
to deal with intellectual-rational perceptions and another
portion,   or  aspect,   may be specialized to  deal  with
matters  such as affect,  emotion,  and  decisions.    The
internalization  process  might  then be  the  process  of
transfer  in  appropriate forms of information  from   one
portion  or  aspect  of the brain's  totality  to  another
portion or aspect.

     Whether  or not there is a neurological basis for the
presence or absence of internalization,  there remains the
practical   problem   of   finding   ways   to   integrate
intellectual-rational   knowledge   into  the   affective,
emotional, decision-making totality of a person.  There is
little value to intellectual-rational knowledge if it does
not  affect  the emotional and decision-making life  of  a
person.   Education is rather meaningless if it is not the
education  of  a  whole person.   The "brain"   who  lacks
integrity is dangerous to herself as well as to others. It
is   not  enough  to  have  administrators  who  have  the
specialized  job  of wisely managing  "brains"   who  lack
integrity---for   such  a  specialization  fragments   the
society as a whole and undermines it's integrity.   Such a
society may not be able to internalize the implications of
new  discoveries  and  inventions when they  are  made  by
"brains"---with tragic consequences.  Communal copying  of
the  pattern of personal fragmentation will not solve  the
problems occasioned thereby.

                                                                                                                               
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