We are the stories we tell ourselves

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• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.

  — Sir Terry Pratchett, The Globe (The Science of Discworld, #2), 2002

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  • Gloomy@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks, I had to think of this one too.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I always thought the “sapiens” came from “thinking”, but I looked it up and it does come from wise! Homo cogitare would have meant thinking man.

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  • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have to vehemently disagree on Pan; at most Australopithecus. narrans is a banger name though, i really like that.

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• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And fire. Fire is essential for story time.

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  • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Especially spooky stories

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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  …and his dick was so big, Snake fell in love with it. And that’s how the world was made. And that’s why I wear this funny hat to keep us all safe.

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  • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And that’s why Josh is a dick and we need to banish him

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• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The more complex evolution makes a brain, the more likely it’s gonna do some weird shit with it.

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  • Pilferjinx@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Heard you like brains, so we’ve put brains in brains inside your brains. Good luck trying to find out why.”

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• anarchist@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Currently reading “The Science of Storytelling” by Will Storr, it is quite good so far!

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  • nixcamic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah yes Mr. Storr, inventor of the Story.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve got this on my tablet. It keeps getting recommended to me.

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    • anarchist@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I finished it just there. First chapter and bits of later chapter are great, but unfortunately the rest of the book is poorly sourced. For a book with “science” in title, I was expecting more rigour.

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• No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Na bro, you are just influenced by the Narativum in the atmosphere, which has nothing to do with your brain

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• iiGxC@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Plot twist evolution wanted social cohesion too

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• moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  that final panel reminded me of this sequence

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• MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Happy RPG noises

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• Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s time for a little story…

  It’s definitely Storytime… *Nightwish song starts playing*

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• Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gurk likes the one with half man half mammoth

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