Not Your Average Jo #31: The Science of Storytelling (why your life is a myth)
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Aug 11, 2022 AI Snips
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Story Is Humanity's Cure For Meaninglessness
- Will Storr argues that humans carry on by telling stories to cure the existential horror of meaninglessness.
- Stories create meaning and safety by connecting random facts into coherent myths.
Brains Crave Unfinished Puzzles
- Our brains crave incomplete data and will work to finish puzzles presented as mysteries.
- Creating mystery hooks attention because fragmented information increases curiosity.
Perception Is A Predictive Hallucination
- The world you experience is a reconstruction the brain generates from predictions and senses.
- No two people perceive the same reality because each brain hallucinates differently.