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Narrator:
As you can see, most people project human characteristics upon the geometric shapes. This is
the Interpreter at work, creating a story where there really wasn't one. Another example of The
Interpreter can be found in the Kuleshov effect (Gottschall 107). Watch what happens.
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A big screen and an audience. On the screen we see a picture of a man followed by a picture of
a bowl of soup. The narrator asks the audience to say what the man is feeling. Several respond
that he is hungry. We then see a picture of a man followed by a picture of a body in a coffin.
Some of the audience members say the man is sad. Finally we see a picture of a man followed
by a picture of a lovely woman. The audience says the man is lusting. The narrator then explains
that the first picture in each sequence is the same, the man's expression never changed.
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Narrator:
The interpreter part of our brain sees a pattern of events and resolves it into a story.
There always seems to be a private narrative taking place inside each of us. We need to believe
we are in control of ourselves even though ninety eight percent of what we do is outside our
conscious control. Our inner narrative consists of the effort to maintain order and fashion a
coherent whole from the thousands of brain systems all working at the same time to cope with
the challenges in our environment. The interpreter seeks explanations for internal and external
events. It looks for causes and relationships. The interpreter never rests. It is always trying to
make sense out of what is going on. If it doesn't know the real story it invents one (Gazzaniga
1998 141).
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The second storyteller. He finishes his parable.
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Narrator:
We witness the events of our lives and make connections between them. We attribute
the events to causes and the agents that are responsible. We see patterns of events and resolve
them into stories. Our minds despise uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. Our minds9
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