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I have to say that the most important entity that this class provided me with-- and if I may use psychological terms -- was "relevant arguments."  While I had many ideas on the concept of perception, culture, disability, constructs of the brain... I heard relevant and meaningful arguments from many people in the class that served to provide a template for me to further pursue thought upon. 

In reflecting upon the knowledge that I received from this class, I seem to have formed a simple explanation in my head: everything is a system of pushes-and-pulls, of feeder tubes which connect everything to everything else.  With culture, it is entirely plausible that the body influences the cognitive unconscious, which influences the storyteller, which influences the culture--and, using this newfound knowledge, I can simply reverse what I just said and it will make complete sense.  This, to me, worked for the other 'boxes' and systems of the brain that we discussed (corollary discharge provided those extra tubes, as did the fact that the brain was not a hierarchical system with an ultimate dictating box). 

I would like to pursue further the connection between the constructs of our brain and the social implications, as well as the actual restructuring that occurs within our brain when we learn or are influenced by culture.  I find it particularly interesting that everyday our brain restructures itself a bit more, because we constantly partake in learning; it makes evolution seem like an almost tangible process, looked at on a miniscule level.