Slay 14 - Chapter 2 - Thinking in Story

The human brain thinks in stories because stories don't exist in nature, they are a concept created by humans. Our brains think this way to save energy and process information more efficiently. Thinking in stories allows us to fill in gaps with existing knowledge and make predictions. This helps us understand the meaning behind actions and events. It's like using autocorrect on a keyboard. It's also a way for us to learn and communicate with others. Chapter 2. Thinking Stories. Why does the human brain think in stories? Hey, hey, you're asking the right straight dude, because I am Mike Heal, the male neuroscientist famous on YouTube. I'm here to answer your question. Why human brain? Why does the human brain think in stories? The first premise here is that outside of human cognition and perhaps also some other animals too, stories don't exist. There's no such thing as a story. I repeat. Does it make sense? Does it make sense? I repeat. Does it make sense? Does it make sense? Does it make sense? I repeat. There's no such thing as a story in nature. The solar system, the Milky Way galaxy, the cosmos, and even the rest of the unknowable universe. The universe exists through a process of randomness. Everything happening all at once. Such chaos and entropy. So the entire concept of a story comes from us and the way that we think. We think in stories. You know what I think? But why do we think 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, we instinctively ask ourselves these questions without even being aware of 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. 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. Or new event by itself. Or new event by itself. It would be overwhelming for our brain to process every little thing one by one. Thing one by one. We save a lot of energy by thinking in stories. It's like a little shortcut your neurons use to save time processing new and stored information. Because actually, what we're doing is taking little pieces of information and filling in the gaps with our existing understanding. Similar to the autocorrect function found in the keyboard of an iPhone created by the man named Steve with a job to ruin horizontal video forever. For. Ever. Filling in the gaps with our existing story 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 I Am Legend with Will and his beloved dog Sam? You know. And I'd have to process all of that. And another example. If I saw Boston Dynamics robots walking by, I'm not going to know what to react and process that info. Am I in Ice Baby Robot or something? Sorry, I forgot the name, but the movie has such great visual effects. 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, 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 a long time ago. And if, my imaginary friend, if you're interested in learning more about that prediction model of human cognition, there's another creator with a 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. Does it make sense? Noontime. Now. Go and watch them. Does it make sense? Go and watch them. Nowhere. Nowhere. Does it make sense? Noontime. Chapter 2. Does it make sense? Why does humans think in stories? Does it make sense? To learn and communicate with others, I guess. I guess. I guess.