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Christelle Tamundele
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"Fiction projects us into intense simulations of problems that run parallel to those we face in reality"
Neural networks, with mirror neurons, activate when we perform an action, experience an emotion or see anybody else do so
So if we watch a movie or read fiction. We seem to be able to feel asif we're in it
— Dec 18, 2025 07:09AM
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Neural networks, with mirror neurons, activate when we perform an action, experience an emotion or see anybody else do so
So if we watch a movie or read fiction. We seem to be able to feel asif we're in it
Christelle Tamundele
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He says: "there is a yawning canyon between what is desirable in life and what is desirable in fiction"
We don't want a perfect story, we want trouble and plots.
Even though it most fictions follow the same structure, William James quotes: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important"
— Dec 03, 2025 03:03PM
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We don't want a perfect story, we want trouble and plots.
Even though it most fictions follow the same structure, William James quotes: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important"
Christelle Tamundele
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Honestly? Yap
Okey stories are everywhere.
Theres always a problem...
— Nov 29, 2025 04:25PM
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Okey stories are everywhere.
Theres always a problem...
