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Posted: 05 Jul 2022

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Stories are built on the mental capacities, namely the capacity to travel mentally in time and space and into minds of others, along with a dose of imaginative construction. They take us on our journeys into other fictitious realms of existence, whether for instruction, for expansion of experience, or simply for entertainment. Some of our stories are simple replays or extended memories. We regale others, often tediously, with our recent travels, our latest goft round, or the exploits of our children -- some of which are often better left untold. We also “narrativize “ our plans for the future, the brilliant career that lies before us or the plan of attack in coming match or business venture.

Katherine Nelson, writing of storied thoughts, concludes that “narrative models and early influences in early childhood help to transform the episodic memory system into a long-lasting autobiographical memory for one’s own life, and thus self-history, which to a large extent underlies our concept of self. . . . Page 102

. . . our predilection for stories is so ubiquitous that the literary scholar John Niles suggested our species should be renamed “homo narrans” -- the storytellers. Similarly, the Israeli historian Yuvai Noah Harari, in his book ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,’ goes so far as to suggest that it was fictitious stories that drove the evolution of language itself: “They truly unique feature of our language is not its ability to transmit information about men and lions. Rather, is not its ability to transmit information about things that don’t exist at all. As far as we know, only Sapiens can talk about kinds of entities that they have never seen, touched or smelled” ~ Page 103

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