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After Thursday’s discussion about the evolving model of the nervous system and the input/output loop, one of the points that really struck me was the idea that we all basically have the same “boxes” within “boxes” in our head, yet the creative differences between individuals is so vast.  It’s mind boggling to think that the connections between these boxes are what make our thought processes different.  On the larger scale, all of our varying thought processes contribute to a community of thinking that in essence creates a culture. I guess this all comes back to Emily Dickinson’s poem which illustrates how everything has come out of thought and the brain. Social constructs and social norms that seem to invisibly govern our life have arisen from our collective thoughts. But what I find interesting, is that so many of our grand explorations, discoveries, and works of art, things that have progressed human race, have come from creative people who have diverged from these norms of thought. Isn’t it crazy to think that everything that we have constructed in this world has come from the varying connections and circuits in our brain and nervous system?