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The symbolic brain represents the increasing convergence of work in anthropology and in neuroscience on questions of meaning, symbolism, subjective experience, and behavior.
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In contrast, the inequality brain is more interested in outcomes, in how people end up in different life spaces and with different physical and mental problems through the joint work of many processes—inside and outside the person—that work to create differential variation.
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The move to consider embodiment, phenomenology, practices, and experience represent new ways of thinking about social problems that match better with the research and ideas emerging out of recent cognitive neuroscience.
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If the brain is plastic, so that activities and experience matter, then culture has a direct effect on how the brain works.
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The critical brain takes on two areas. The first area, one we delight in doing, is taking on the bad use of hard-wired biology, evolutionary psychology, and the like in discussing how brains might work and how our minds and cultures link into brain function.
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The second area examines the ideologies and symbolisms surrounding the brain in our culture-at-large, as well as the social uses and consequences of our technological understanding and manipulation of neurological processes on society.
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