Born to do Math 131 – We Live Our Stories: We Are Our Stories
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Born To Do Math
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2019/08/08
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We talked yesterday about Will. We came up with two extra points of contact, at least one main one, which was Confirmatory Will. It was pinning things down.
Rick Rosner: It is using will as a conscious decision. The point we left off on was, ‘Why is consciousness expressed to us in the form of a narrative? What is efficient informationally about us feeling as if we’re part of a story?”
It is not unreasonable to consider humans generalists and adapted to finding regularities in the environment as opposed to more specifically adapted creatures who have less general intelligence to the extent that general intelligence may exist.
I would suggest that narrative framing is an efficient way of structuring experience. That part of general intelligence is identifying situations involving cause and effect, finding the reasons for things, and tracing out the causes and the effects.
That making it part of a story is a compact way of structuring that knowledge.
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