So human beings are storytellers by nature.

The left hemisphere of the brain

has dedicated circuits, regions like Brokaw and Werniches,

regions that are set up along with other circuits in the eventual media to produce narratives, sequences, and we use stories to make sense of our lives in the world around us.

If you've ever watched, for example, a documentary without the voiceover

on, you pretty much rarely have a clue what's going on or what the message is. You might see some random images, maybe a fox, and then there's

a rabbit, and then there's a crocodile. I don't know what documentary I'm talking about making this up.

But anyway, you get the idea you have no clue what's going on.

And you rely on the voiceover, the narrator, generally authoritative voice, to give you a sense of what the information these images are conveying.

And so we create internal stories in the form of inner autobiographies, life stories,

and commentaries that we rely on to make sense of experience.

The stories we tell, the narratives that we sustain about our lives and about the people we interact with

creates our sense of the world, the laws that the world operates under, it creates the sense of our goals that we're trying to achieve,

it creates the sense of our purpose in the world, and even perhaps most importantly, our very sense of self and identity is

completely constructed through language that we repeat in our minds.

So without the interpreter, we would be thoroughly overwhelmed by impressions and experiences

and we would feel very vulnerable and very disempowered.

According to Gazaniga, who was probably the first

neuroscientist to located the regions of this interpreter.

The interpreter that storytelling capability is what gives us a sense of cohesion, a sense of

authorship of our action. Without that interpreter, without that story we tell, we would take actions but we would that to them. So we act and then we tell a story about why we acted and we create

motivations and rationalizations and justifications.

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