So everything we do in life is problem solving and therefore storytelling was originally a form of problem solving, and this explains the origin of storytelling how? This seems like saying “the sky is made of quarks, all matter is made of quarks. Therefore this explains the origins of the sky.” But just saying “quarks!” doesn’t tell you where the quarks are and where they’re going and how far away they all are from each other in what directions. And the positions of all the many quarks involved are too many to keep track of them all individually with a human level intelligence in any reasonable time frame. Sure, in theory you could successfully predict the stock market by measuring the movements and positions of fundamental particles, but by the time you’ve actually finished all those measurements and made your prediction the stock market has already changed a billion times over and the universe has grown cold.
In short, your explanation of “it’s all just problem solving!” doesn’t really explain anything about the origin of stories in particular because it explains every other thing that a mind could ever do equally well.
Still, now I’m curious. What is the real origin of storytelling? I wonder if anyone has actually investigated this already. I’d be surprised if they haven’t.
Has anyone else here read any studies on the subject?
So everything we do in life is problem solving and therefore storytelling was originally a form of problem solving, and this explains the origin of storytelling how? This seems like saying “the sky is made of quarks, all matter is made of quarks. Therefore this explains the origins of the sky.” But just saying “quarks!” doesn’t tell you where the quarks are and where they’re going and how far away they all are from each other in what directions. And the positions of all the many quarks involved are too many to keep track of them all individually with a human level intelligence in any reasonable time frame. Sure, in theory you could successfully predict the stock market by measuring the movements and positions of fundamental particles, but by the time you’ve actually finished all those measurements and made your prediction the stock market has already changed a billion times over and the universe has grown cold.
In short, your explanation of “it’s all just problem solving!” doesn’t really explain anything about the origin of stories in particular because it explains every other thing that a mind could ever do equally well.
Still, now I’m curious. What is the real origin of storytelling? I wonder if anyone has actually investigated this already. I’d be surprised if they haven’t.
Has anyone else here read any studies on the subject?