
Susan Magsamen | Your Brain on Art
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
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The Power of Stories
Stories provide critical information and meaning we literally feel a story as our brains release a cascade of chemicals that encode them in our hippocampus. The ability to completely fabricate stories out of the human mind order to convey important feelings ideas emotions and shared knowledge is but one of the capacities we developed in order to make sense of the world in a shared and aesthetic way. In valtuah where culture has had their stories their community eradicated how do you rebuild those stories and how do you bring them back?
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