Simulation, stories, and fictional worlds

Behav Brain Sci. 2022 Nov 18:45:e285. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X21002107.

Abstract

The authors explain our attraction to strange, literary places as resulting from our attraction to strange places in real life. I believe this is correct and important. The aim of the following commentary is to show that their main conclusion is closely related to - even (retrospectively) predictable from - the operation of simulation and the consequences of that operation for storytelling.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Communication*
  • Humans
  • Retrospective Studies