{"id":30425,"date":"2012-03-08T21:43:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/our-minds-form-cohesive-narratives-out-of\/"},"modified":"2012-03-08T21:43:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:43:37","slug":"our-minds-form-cohesive-narratives-out-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/our-minds-form-cohesive-narratives-out-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Our minds form cohesive narratives out of disparate elements all the time: one of the things we are best at is telling ourselves just so stories about our own behavior and that of others. If we\u2019re not sure, we make it up \u2013 or rather, our brain does, without so much as thinking about asking our permission to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><em>Scientific American<\/em>\u2019s <strong>Maria Konnikova<\/strong> on the messy science of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/literally-psyched\/2012\/03\/08\/our-storytelling-minds-do-we-ever-really-know-whats-going-on-inside\/\">our storytelling minds<\/a>, echoing the central premise of neuroscientist <strong>David Eagleman<\/strong>\u2019s excellent\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2011\/06\/01\/david-eagleman-incognito\/\">Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain<\/a><\/em>, one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/22\/best-psychology-and-philosophy-books-of-2011\/\">11 best psychology and philosophy books<\/a> of 2011. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/\">explore-blog<\/a>) I&rsquo;ve been thinking of these as &ldquo;micro-narratives&rdquo; as I&rsquo;m trying to imaging pedagogy for making games.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our minds form cohesive narratives out of disparate elements all the time: one of the things we are best at is telling ourselves just so stories about our own behavior and that of others. If we\u2019re not sure, we make it up \u2013 or rather, our brain does, without so much as thinking about asking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7UJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}