The Human Condition
As Seen by a Materialist Neurobiologist

Paul Grobstein
Building the Scientific Mind
Vancouver, May 2007

Some Brain Details:
Story Sharing

• Stories are a major (but not the only) form of human exchange

• Different people should be expected to have different stories

• Different stories can be valuable in ongoing exploration/creation
  "a properly functioning social system may well depend as much on the differences among individuals as it does on their similarities ... the rights of individuals and of distinctive groups of individuals should be regarded as deriving not only from their common characteristics but also from their differences."

• Stories should be listened to rather than believed in ... lest they lead to battles over "Reality" and "Truth" and inhibit the ongoing process of exploration/discovery/creation

• The test of a story lies in its usefulness for creating new exploration/creations/stories rather than in its origins/logic/truth
  
  Diversity and Deviance: A Biological Perspectiv
  From Complexity to Emergence and Beyond: Towards Empirical Non-Foundationalism as a Guide for Inquiry
  Social Organization as Applied Neurobiology: The Value of Stories and Story Creation

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