The Story of Your Life
Hidden Brain
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Why Stories Work This Way
Raymond: Why are our minds so attuned to narrative and story telling? He says there's a reason for that. This deep sort of immersion in the story, this deep imagination a draws upon the same sort of emotional systems that we use in the real world. So the sadness that we feel when a character that we care a lot about dies, for example, it's not the same as a real loved one dying but it's similar enough that can produce things like tears....
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