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The oldest technology humans ever built, still running on every brain you'll ever meet.
means An account of connected events, real or invented, told to inform, entertain, or make sense of the world.
from From Latin 'historia' (an inquiry, a narrative of past events), itself borrowed from Greek 'historia,' rooted in 'histōr' — a wise person, a knower, a judge. It reached English through Old French 'estorie' in the medieval period, and notably split from its sibling 'history': the same word forked, one branch keeping the weight of fact, the other free to roam into fiction and invention.
basic plotsSome scholars argue all fiction fits just seven shapes
older than writingOral tales predate the alphabet by tens of thousands of years
brain hackNarrative syncs listeners' neural activity to the speaker's
survival edgeStories let us learn from deaths we never died
memory glueFacts stick up to 20 times better wrapped in plot