I wonder if certain cognitive biases aren’t essential to storytelling. You could almost define “story” in terms of the absence of probability—while ‘overcoming bias’ is to a large extent a matter of forcing oneself to think in probabilistic terms.
(I don’t include poetry in this)
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I wonder if certain cognitive biases aren’t essential to storytelling. You could almost define “story” in terms of the absence of probability—while ‘overcoming bias’ is to a large extent a matter of forcing oneself to think in probabilistic terms.
(I don’t include poetry in this)