Narrative

'you could say stories are an especially useful storage format, a type of compression, and consciousness is the program that unpacks it.'

That direct engagement with the self, with no fear of shame or abandonment, no struggling to please others, is what makes isolation feel restorative and generative when it creates the conditions for solitude. In other words, stories we create with ourselves, for ourselves, can be a way of redeeming loneliness. It's when we hit the limits of the sto

Every narrative that we construct is predicated on the assumption of causality. Causality is the reason for constructing narratives in the first place, and lets us build models of how the world works, and in doing so allows us to make predictions about the future

The great question of the Anth: What happens next?