
#308: How the Science of Storytelling Actually Works
Business of Story
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Is Your Brain Just Telling You a Story?
The world as we experience it is literally a story, that's not just like a inoacool, a trendy cond of ted talk in a sound bite. True reality is overwhelmingly complicated. We don't even experience true reality on a basic level. For for example, our ino eyes pick up less than one ten trillionth of the available light spectrum. Colours are a special effect painted by the brain. Atoms around us have no color and sounds don't exist outside the brain. Sounds are you now shifting vibrations in the ground and shifting a kind of, kind of air waves. All relates to us, to us. Social scientists believe that the most powerful bias that we think
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