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177. Angus Fletcher — 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
The Michael Shermer Show
How Do Memories Change Your Brain?
Fiction is valuable because it has an enormously powerful effect on us that we realize is fictional. What happens when someone writes a memoir and then says, this actually happens when it didn't? It's the same thing that a religion is doing, is they're passing off something as true when it's not. We need to have the courage to pull it back and say, things can have value even if they're not true. Fictions can have value in the same way that rige has value. And i think you should go and watch hamlet and be like, this isn't real, but it's powerful.
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