Dr. Stephen Hicks

Sometimes narratives are wildly on the basis.

Sometimes narratives are wildly on the basis.

Sometimes narratives are wildly on the basis.

That's for sure. But rather than seeing the narrative as a screen or as an obstacle or an intermediary, it itself is a tool. It's a state that our psychological conscious apparatus is in when we are relating to reality. That's if we get it right. But if we mess it up, then it does become something that we try to see reality through, and we're in a problematic situation.

That's for sure. But rather than seeing the narrative as a screen or as an obstacle or an intermediary, it itself is a tool. It's a state that our psychological conscious apparatus is in when we are relating to reality. That's if we get it right. But if we mess it up, then it does become something that we try to see reality through, and we're in a problematic situation.

That's for sure. But rather than seeing the narrative as a screen or as an obstacle or an intermediary, it itself is a tool. It's a state that our psychological conscious apparatus is in when we are relating to reality. That's if we get it right. But if we mess it up, then it does become something that we try to see reality through, and we're in a problematic situation.

But then you've dropped reality out of the picture.

But then you've dropped reality out of the picture.

But then you've dropped reality out of the picture.

The scientist who's studying the wolves is creating a story. That's right. No, not creating, I want to say constructing a story. Yes. But it's a story about something that's not happening mediated through stories in the wolves.

The scientist who's studying the wolves is creating a story. That's right. No, not creating, I want to say constructing a story. Yes. But it's a story about something that's not happening mediated through stories in the wolves.

The scientist who's studying the wolves is creating a story. That's right. No, not creating, I want to say constructing a story. Yes. But it's a story about something that's not happening mediated through stories in the wolves.

Well, I think you're putting two kinds of examples out on the table. They're going to be related. I think the first one where we are looking at a human being, say an actor on a screen, putting ourselves in that person's shoes and reading all sorts of things.

Well, I think you're putting two kinds of examples out on the table. They're going to be related. I think the first one where we are looking at a human being, say an actor on a screen, putting ourselves in that person's shoes and reading all sorts of things.

Well, I think you're putting two kinds of examples out on the table. They're going to be related. I think the first one where we are looking at a human being, say an actor on a screen, putting ourselves in that person's shoes and reading all sorts of things.

I think that's very extraordinarily complicated. And I think the interesting thing there is going to be, while you say that we humans are very good at that, the interesting thing is going to be how much of that is learned, because it does seem to be a highly fallible process.

I think that's very extraordinarily complicated. And I think the interesting thing there is going to be, while you say that we humans are very good at that, the interesting thing is going to be how much of that is learned, because it does seem to be a highly fallible process.

I think that's very extraordinarily complicated. And I think the interesting thing there is going to be, while you say that we humans are very good at that, the interesting thing is going to be how much of that is learned, because it does seem to be a highly fallible process.

I know, I don't want to get too personal here, but there will be lots of times I've been in social circumstances, and I think I'm pretty savvy about reading people, but I'll be with my wife, and she will say, after we've had a conversation with someone, Boy, did you notice how upset that person was about blah, blah, blah.

I know, I don't want to get too personal here, but there will be lots of times I've been in social circumstances, and I think I'm pretty savvy about reading people, but I'll be with my wife, and she will say, after we've had a conversation with someone, Boy, did you notice how upset that person was about blah, blah, blah.