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6/25/2025, 9:29:58 PM
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because it engages your the frontal cortex which cares about the stuff that differentiates you from other animals: computation, prediction. which should be quite exciting for a normal human, eons of evolution inscribed in our brains that correct prediction means the difference between life and death. whether it's about the trajectory of a projectile or the outcome of a conflict it's automatically engaging, and very satisfying when successfully done.
(needless to say conflict is NOT absolutely necessary in fiction; in our country we had to study a lot of local writers who were masters of language; of action, not so much. pages and pages of nature description and shit. god they were boring.)
because it engages your the frontal cortex which cares about the stuff that differentiates you from other animals: computation, prediction. which should be quite exciting for a normal human, eons of evolution inscribed in our brains that correct prediction means the difference between life and death. whether it's about the trajectory of a projectile or the outcome of a conflict it's automatically engaging, and very satisfying when successfully done.
(needless to say conflict is NOT absolutely necessary in fiction; in our country we had to study a lot of local writers who were masters of language; of action, not so much. pages and pages of nature description and shit. god they were boring.)
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