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I wrote this time's paper on rewriting our brains. And when I do the researches, I found that some scientists think meditation is a way to change our brains. In class, we talked about how conversations can happen between consciousness and unconsciousness, and how the conversations changed our minds and behavior. I wonder which part of brain the meditation can change? The conscious part? The unconscious part? The physical brain? Or all of them? None of them?

Some one in our class made a connection between brains and economics. She challenged the notion "humans are rational" in economics with the irrationality of our brains.I also tried to make connections between the "brains as story tellers" and other classes I take. But I found the opposite. In math, what we found true must to be proved true. We can't make a starry out of math. For example, the sum of three angles in a triangle is 180. The is not just a story told by my brain. I have to test it, prove it. And my brain, the story teller, has no control over it. Math and other science seem to get rid of the stories.

I also found our brains are amazing story tellers. The stories they make are very interesting, full of imaginations, but at the same time very different from the truth. For example, in the class, Paul showed us the flashing dots on the screen. And our brains made up stories like: two dots were running in a circle, or they were running in opposite directions. Both stories are very amusing but totally different from the truth, which is the flashing dots on the screen.