What's the most interesting specific question you don't have an answer to? (note: meaning of life, "what are capybaras" not specific enough)
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
Why are humans so obsessed with stories/narratives?
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Replying to @KevinSimler @sarahdoingthing
I feel like this has some convincing answers already; what do you think it would take to make a good answer?
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Replying to @teleonomist @sarahdoingthing
1. I fear I may have failed the "specific" criterion here. 2. The problem is MY lack of knowledge, not the world's
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Replying to @KevinSimler @sarahdoingthing
2... *I* am puzzled by people's fetish for stories, for reasons I don't fully understand and can't articulate.
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Replying to @KevinSimler @sarahdoingthing
3. Sarah's Theory of Narrative Selection comes close to scratching my itch. Also some posts by Robin Hanson
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Replying to @KevinSimler @sarahdoingthing
Still I remain mostly befuddled (in the way I was once befuddled by religion, but have since mostly cleared up).
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Replying to @KevinSimler @sarahdoingthing
ah. I'm mostly satisfied with "narrative gets lots of brain space because it's an efficient representation >
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> of an important domain (social causality), analogous to object recognition+tracking with material causality)
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Stories also exhibit many strong biases that make them poor guides to how the (social) world really works.
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Replying to @KevinSimler @sarahdoingthing
imperfect, to be sure, but bounded cognition and stuff. i think most narrativization is invisible and useful >
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> and just not thought of as "telling a story" because it *is* accurate
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