October 2011
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Old Murakami interview in @ParisReview - “The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake.” http://bit.ly/rplnef
How Friends Ruin Memory: The Social Conformity... →
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By JONAH LEHRER l Wired Oct. 18, 2011
Humans are storytelling machines. We don’t passively perceive the world – we tell stories about it, translating the helter-skelter of events into tidy narratives. This is often a helpful habit, helping us make sense of mistakes, consider counterfactuals and extract a sense of meaning from the randomness of life.
But our love of stories comes...
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