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Fundamentals
What’s the Point of Stories? (Asking for a Writer)
“Fiction allows us to extend and refine our capacity to process social information, especially the key information of character and event–individuals and associates, allies and enemies, goals, obstacles, actions, and outcomes–and to metarepresent, to see social information from the perspective of other individuals or other times, places, or conditions …” from chapter 13 of “On the Origin of Stories” by Brian Boyd You’ve probably heard it said that stories are fundamental to
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