The Human Condition
As Seen by a Materialist Neurobiologist
Paul Grobstein
Building the Scientific Mind
Vancouver, May 2007
Some Brain Details:
Story Telling
- Thinking is "story telling", finding ways to make sense of the cacaphony of signals that reach consciousness
All conscious experience is story
- Stories are themselves neither "Truth" nor "Reality" but continually subject to revision
- The story teller/consciousness is not/should not be "in control"; it is an additional element of a distributed system
- Story telling gives us the capacity to conceive things that might not otherwise have been, to bring "meaning" and "purpose" into existence, and to choose among alternatives
- Story telling facilitates exchange of explorations among people
- Story telling is an essential component of all human existence, including science
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