(August 23, 2022 at 11:29 pm)Tomato Wrote: The interesting thing about stories is that they're fictional.
When we refer to events in our reality, we don't call them stories, after all.
That's an interesting comment. Rather than fiction the word sometimes used by cognitive scientists is verisimilitude. Narrative is how we process the social world around us, or rather how we filter it into plots and characters spread across a sequence of events.
Of course, fiction exist, but I see it more like an offshoot or extension of the purpose of storytelling.
