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Our Brains Create Social Reality

What is the “social construction” of reality?   Is everything just relative and subjective? Is everything just made up?   Or could the social construction of reality have something to do with being made in God’s image? This is what I’m thinking about as I finish up Lisa Feldman Barrett’s new book, Seven and a […]

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discipleship Neuroscience

Your Brain Works With Other Brains

What does it really mean to say that humans are social beings? How does it really affect us that we are embedded in our relationship?   And what does this mean for discipleship? I’m continuing with Barrett’s new book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (I’m working through chapters as part of the […]

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Your (Social) Brain Wires to the World (for good or bad)

Why are human infants so helpless compared to other mammal? Is it because of our big brains?  Kind of yes.   And the reasons are essential for thinking about discipleship.   I’m continuing with Barrett’s new book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (I’ll be going through one lesson a week building up […]

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The Brain Is Not For Thinking

Why do you have a brain?  To think with.  That would be the common and simple answer.  But Lisa Feldman Barrett says this is all wrong.   Actually, she says we have a bunch of things wrong about how we think about our brain.   And she lays it all out in her new book, […]