Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Creativity and Madness 2008

I'm here at the Hilton Waikaloa on the Big Island of Hawai'i for the Creativity and Madness conference. I gave two talks about narrative concepts, one about the relation of narrative philosophy to Native North American philosophy, and the other about Narrative Neuropsychology -- how the brain comprehends, processes, stores, recalls, and tells stories. It turns out that stories activate virtually the entire brain. Stories can concatenate in the anterior temporal poles and therefore become smaller units of information for processing in the dorso-lateral preftontal cortex.

Anyway, let's stay in touch on these narrative ideas. They'll eventually reach the west cost of north america where they may chance the worldl

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