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elaborate lies we agree to believe, then somehow learn the truth from
means A story or body of writing about imagined people and events rather than real ones.
from From Latin fictio, "a fashioning or feigning," from the verb fingere, "to shape, mold, or form" — the same hands-in-clay verb that gave us figure and effigy. The root sense is sculptural: fiction is something molded into being, shaped from nothing. Only later did "made by hand" drift toward "made up," so that the word now carries a faint thumbprint of the potter who invented you.
- brain trick
- Neurons fire the same reading a chase as running one
- older than writing
- Oral myths predate the alphabet by millennia
- legal weapon
- Uncle Tom's Cabin helped ignite a war
- empathy engine
- Fiction readers test higher on understanding others
- prophet streak
- Verne, Wells and Clarke predicted submarines, tanks, satellites