“Maybe, maybe not.” Yoshi-san replied with a thoughtful emoji. “Narrative storytelling is the oldest form of philosophy, you know. The human mind is wired for narrative, and can connect incredibly different types of information together in unique ways through the structure of a story. People have been telling stories for almost as long as they’ve been singing or dancing, and the necessary traits that produce such distinct behaviors would not have remained in the gene pool, had they not offered some benefit to the species at some point. Organisms rarely waste energy without purpose, even if you
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