Kevin Simler

1. I fear I may have failed the "specific" criterion here. 2. The problem is MY lack of knowledge, not the world's

2... *I* am puzzled by people's fetish for stories, for reasons I don't fully understand and can't articulate.

3. Sarah's Theory of Narrative Selection comes close to scratching my itch. Also some posts by Robin Hanson

Still I remain mostly befuddled (in the way I was once befuddled by religion, but have since mostly cleared up).

ah. I'm mostly satisfied with "narrative gets lots of brain space because it's an efficient representation >

> of an important domain (social causality), analogous to object recognition+tracking with material causality)

Stories also exhibit many strong biases that make them poor guides to how the (social) world really works.

imperfect, to be sure, but bounded cognition and stuff. i think most narrativization is invisible and useful >