Lessons on Humanity from Science Fiction

Finding ourselves in fictional worlds

Brynne Schroeder, PhD
Age of Awareness
Published in
7 min readOct 5, 2021

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If I’ve learned anything from researching identity development, it’s that we cannot understand ourselves without looking outside ourselves. Science fiction does this on the grandest scale. It challenges us to contextualize human identity within an infinite universe. It prompts us to interrogate our values and confront the paradoxes…

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