What comes first, the character or the story?
Narrative chicken-egg conundrum.
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IMO at least several (core) archetypes may well predate humanity, even hominids, e.g. "Ruler/powerbroker"~="alpha"(m/f) or "Siren"(m/f). Hence the deeply embedded "firmware" images/instincts, that come before verbal/language-based storytelling, tho each is a micro-story of sorts
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Replying to @AlexSchleber @Alephwyr
Common trope in fantasy. Idea of ancient vintages of sophisticated intelligence. It’s projection with most species I think (though of an interesting sort), but I think higher mammals generally do have the requisite neurodiversity for actual archetypes to be meaningful.pic.twitter.com/6W96aeCdFq
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There’s also the idea of lizard people ruling the earth, Cthulhu etc. Old discredited idea of triune brain. There’s an ontogeny-recapitulates-phylogeny aspect to archetypal variety. There’s less variety in older layers of the tree, but they differ in bigger ways.
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brain structure turns out to be largely irrelevant, though there is no doubt that the various areas evolved along with anything else. Similar retained areas in many cases would have similar functions as before. Along the lines of % DNA in common with older species?
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Ah a functionalist approach to archetyping I see
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