Chapter 6: The Possibility Engine
Humans evolved to acquire symbols as quickly as possible.
Language and storytelling evolved to be acquirable as easily as possible.
That's why our …
Tag: Outsourcing Consciousness
Chapter 5: The Axe that Never Was
Our brains evolved to tell stories before they evolved to speak.
This has fundamental implications for our susceptibility to communication in the ne…
Chapter 4: Out of Eden
If we care about the influence of social networks on our minds, why are we talking about bipedalism and the 8 million year cycle of co-evolution it ki…
Chapter 3: Caliban’s Garden
Man's road to becoming a storyteller began with a single step.
That step kicked off millions of years of co-evolution of the human brain, society, l…
Chapter 2: What is Story?
There are a lot of ways to define a "story."
But to understand how story interacts with human consciousness requires us to be more specific.
Chapter 1: Overhearing Ourselves
Shakespeare invented the human by inventing a device which spoke the language of consciousness:
Story.
Introduction: David Bowie’s Alien
David Bowie was right.
Social networks aren't a tool. They are an alien force that transforms human consciousness.