We understand a story’s meaning, in part, by tracking its causality, and a story’s power stems from our sense that its causality is truthful, which is to say, that its internal logic is solid.
We understand a story’s meaning, in part, by tracking its causality, and a story’s power stems from our sense that its causality is truthful, which is to say, that its internal logic is solid.
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It’s cause and effect that powers curiosity. Human brains and human stories ask, ‘Why did that happen? And what’s going to happen next?’
... See more…shaped narratives typically focus on the struggles of protagonist, are almost always grounded in some implicit or explicit moral conflict, and ultimately lead not just to an account of what happened but also to an expression of what it all meant. Shaped stories are meaning-making tools and they can exert awesome sway, not just over individual peop
Brain stories have a basic structure of cause and effect. Whether it’s memory, religion, or the War of the Ghosts, it rebuilds the confusion of reality into simplified theories of how one thing causes another. Cause and effect is a fundamental of how we understand the world.