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Storytelling with Jason Silva and Tim Urban (Wait But Why)

Brains

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Authenticity Is Good, but Sometimes It's Boring

When you're telling a story, riht, the question of true and false is a big one. And this isn't something that's very interesting when i o event diagram between empirical reality or what you might call poetic reality. So allan de boton, the british philosopher, he says, a journalist may be more accurate in describing the details of an event than a poet. Or ursula leguyn says, science describes accurately from the outside, and poetry cribes accurately from the inside. Science explicates, but poetry implicates. If we were able to delineate those things, then we would be able to judge a story teller from the quality of

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