Episode 27a: Towards a story of stories, repackaged

Summary:

General thoughts on stories: the primacy of stories in how we think, adjacent narratives, conspiracy theories, story wars, the bad ends for false tales, taxonomy of stories, fundamental story types, emotional arcs, folktales, proverbs, survival algorithms, stories = algorithms, and the essence of all stories. A central theme: hatchings, matchings, and dispatchings.

Date:

2016/12/08

Duration:

59:28

2016/12/08

59:28

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Extra:

The second half of episode 26 and the first part of episode 27 smooshed together.


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