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Conversation continues in From evolving systems to world literature and back again, and has branched to yield an additional conversation on World Literature and Neurobiology. 

For some thoughts of my own reflecting, among other things, our evolving systems group discussions to date, see Cultures of ability. 

"Instead of looking at each other in terms of deficiencies, we could look at each other in terms of strengths and construct our sense of what we're trying to do based on that.  We are trying to do whatever the particular collection of people who make up our culture is able to do well.  And we constantly adjust what we're trying to do to assure that everybody in our culture plays a meaningful role in what we're trying to do.  We create and recreate our culture to make everybody a meaningful contributor to it ... by learning to be less critical and more generous with ourselves we could as well contribute to bringing into being a more humane culture, a culture of ability rather than disability?"