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At its best, empirical research opens new and fruitful directions for exploring what it means to be human. In this essay. I will describe several aspects of research on the brain that seem to me to have this character, suggesting that we can and should think of ourselves, individually and collectively, as active creators and revisers of meaning, for ourselves and for the world we find ourselves in. I will conclude with several social policy recommendations that follow from this perspective.
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Grobstein, P. (2019). The Brain as a Learner/Inquirer/Creator: Some Implications of Its Organization for Individual and Social Well Being. In: Kelso, J. (eds) Learning To Live Together: Promoting Social Harmony. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90659-1_14
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