Learning From The Links by David K. Hurst

Author:David K. Hurst
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Free Press
Published: 2002-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

This Darwinian process and its outcomes is accompanied by a continual stream of verbal rationalizations from the interpreter of our experience that seems to reside in the left brain. Sometimes the interpreter gets the logic right, but often, when the webs of cause and effect are complex, the left brain has to make it up; it has to tell a story:

We … are almost constantly engaged in presenting ourselves to others, and to ourselves, and hence representing ourselves—in language and gesture, external and internal…. Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control and self-definition is … telling stories, and more particularly concocting and controlling the story we tell others—and ourselves—about who we are…. Our tales are spun, but for the most part we don’t spin them; they spin us. Our human consciousness … is their product, not their source. *

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