Slay 14_Chapter 0 - Think in Stories

The human brain thinks in stories because it's energy efficient. Stories don't actually exist outside of human cognition. The universe exists all at once, but our brains create stories to make sense of it. Thinking in stories saves energy by allowing us to process new information using our existing understanding. It's like an autocorrect function in our brains. This helps us predict and make sense of the world around us. If we didn't think in stories, we would have to individually process every new item or event, which would be overwhelming. Our brains gather data and memories from the present moment and fill in the gaps with stored information. This prediction model of human cognition is very interesting and can be explored further. thinking stories thinking stories why does the human brain think in stories every little thing one by one the simple the simple answer is that it's energy efficiency hey you're asking the right girl because i'm rachel the neuroscientist i'm here to answer your question why human brain thinking stories thinking stories the first premise here is that outside of human cognition cognition and perhaps and perhaps also some other animals too stories don't exist stories don't exist there's no such thing as a story don't exist there's no such thing the universe exists all at once through a process of randomness randomness everything happening all at once such chaos and entropy and entropy so the entire concept of a story comes from us chaos and the way that we think and the way that we think i think we think in stories you know what i think i think i think but why do we think that way that way that way why is it that human beings are little meaning making machines or sense making machines does this theory make sense what is the meaning behind someone else's actions is this path worth my time what is the purpose of your message every day every day we instinctively ask ourselves these questions without even being aware of it why is it why is it the simple answer is that it's energy efficiency it's part of the way our brain is designed to process designed to process if you if you if you didn't have that aspect of human cognition when you go out into the world you'd have to individually process every single new item or new event by itself it would be overwhelming for our brain to process every little thing one by one one by one one by one now we save a lot of energy by thinking in stories thinking in stories it's like a little shortcut your neurons use thinking in stories to save time processing new and stored information thinking in stories new new and stored information information because actually what we're doing is taking little piece of information and filling in the gaps with our existing understanding with our existing understanding similar to the autocorrect function found in the keyboard of an iphone created by the man named steve steve with a job to ruin horizontal video forever forever forever forever forever filling in the gaps with our existing story authority if i see someone in the street with a leash and a german shepherd dog if i didn't think in stories i'm like what the hell is going on here am i in the movie what's going on here i am legend with will and his beloved dog sam what the hell is going on here sam you know i am legend you know and i'd have to process all of that and another example if i saw a boston dynamics robots walking by i'm not going to know what to react and process that info am i an eye ice baby robot or something sorry i forgot the name but the movie has such great visual effects sorry i forgot the name ever since i think in stories i know that and only that is a person walking their dog dogs need daily exercise sam need daily excuse to exercise too sam can't stay in the house for too long blah blah blah in fact so much of human cognition is based on predictions we gather a little bit of data or memories from what's happening right now and we fill in the gaps with stored information we've already collected and processed long time ago long time ago long time ago long time ago long time ago and if my imaginary friend if you're interested in learning more about that prediction model of human cognition of human cognition there's another creator with username the brain scientist who i will add here this scientist who's been making a few videos about that recently are very interesting go and watch them now nowhere noontime what does human think in stories to learn and communicate with others i guess stories don't exist stories don't exist there's no such thing as a story the universe exists human beings are thinking in stories every little thing one by one one by one one by one one by one every little thing one by one the simple the simple answer is that it's energy efficiency thinking in stories new and stored information sorry i forgot the name long time ago long time ago long time ago again stored information