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VELDSMAN, Danie P. At the heart of our life's stories lies the heart: On making (fictional) sense of reality. STJ [online]. 2026, vol.12, n.1, pp.13-30. ISSN 2413-9467.  https://doi.org/10.17570/stj.2026.v12n1.a1.

In our multifarious (contextual) ways of making sense of reality as embodied personhood, lies the heart: an embodied heart. From a powerful historical and multi-disciplinary exploration of the metaphoric significance of the "heart" and its constitutive fictional role in making sense of our realities, my article argues for a broader and life-affirming understanding of a model of rationality, shaped and constrained by our evolutionary biological makeup and our cognitive-affective ways in relating to, experiencing and engaging with our realities. It's not an argumentative plea for irrationality, but for a deeper and broader multi-disciplinary pursuit for the understanding of the manners in which being human as personhood finds clues in our linguistic traditions in the context of theology-science discourses for (wholeheartedly) making sense of reality, and the contextual capturing of the meaningfulness of life.

Palavras-chave : affectivity; emotions; heart as metaphor; model for rationality; sensemaking of reality; embodied personhood; consciousness.

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