Narrative is Code for the Human Brain feat. Neal Stephenson | Rabbit Hole Research S2 E1

Narrative is code for the human brain.

That's not a metaphor. That's Neal Stephenson's argument — and he's spent

40 years writing at that intersection.

Before writing, before the internet, humans were already building a shared

memory around a fire. The ability to take a near-death experience and hand

it to someone else — so they don't have to live it themselves — is the most

powerful evolutionary advantage a species could ever have.

We also got into:

→ Why archetypes might be the eigenvectors of human experience

→ The parallel between writing code and writing fiction

→ Why AI can't replicate the feeling of seeing brushstroke marks on a painting

→ What happens when you remove telos from an AI interaction