Ha! Writers are actually more evolved!

[elsol]

With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player. One reptilian legacy is that as our eyes sweep across the field of view, they make tiny jumps. At the points between where the eyes alight, what reaches the brain is blurry, so the visual cortex sees the neural equivalent of jump cuts. The brain nevertheless creates a coherent perception out of them, filling in the gaps of the jerky feed. What you see is continuous, smooth. But as often happens with kludges, the old components make their presence felt in newer systems, in this case taking a system that worked well in vision and enlisting it higher-order cognition. Determined to construct a seamless story from jumpy input, for instance, patients with amnesia will, when asked what they did yesterday, construct a story out of memory scraps.

It isn't only amnesiacs whose brains confabulate. There is no good reason why dreams, which consolidate memories, should take a narrative form. If they're filing away memories, we should just experience memory fragments as each is processed. The cortex's narrative drive, however, doesn't turn off during sleep. Like an iPod turning on that cassette player, the fill-in-the-gaps that works so well for jumpy eye movements takes the raw material of memory and weaves it into a coherent, if bizarre, story. The reptilian brain lives on.

It's all in there...

Narrative is a higher-cognition (more evolved function).

Thus those of us who need to make everything a narrative CLEARLY use this part of our brain more.

Ha!!!!

(Come on, people! Laugh! Unless I'm actually misreading this... and writers are less evolved!)

 

[cloudy]

love it.

 

[scriptordelecto]

I'll side with you Elsol. We are more evolved. Yeah....that sounds good.

 

[Guest]

I like it.

More evolved intellectually and SEXUALLY, I'm certain.

 

[CeriseNoire]

I like it.

More evolved intellectually and SEXUALLY, I'm certain.

Well, they do say the brain is the largest erogenous zone. Thus it follows...

 

[Guest]

Well, they do say the brain is the largest erogenous zone. Thus it follows...

Damn straight.

 

[gauchecritic]

Several salient points to what I've been trying to tell you lot for years plus extra interesting tidbits. (I know what a bit is but what's a tid? Tid, tid, tid, tid, tid.) Anyway.
Narrative. Yay. the highest evolutionary form for a brain. Available only to symbology using animals. And thus making 'predictive thinking' available only to the human form.

Jump cuts and narrative + eyes and perception. In order to not have to process every single image, the brain looks for difference and accepts similarity without regard. Look out the window and there's someone there that wasn't there before.
Everything else in the scene is as before so you actually only look for differences in the view. Spotting the difference your brain ties a story to the scene based on the difference you can observe. The person is in motion so they came from out of shot, in that direction. You recognise the person so they are 'going home'. They're carrying a newspaper so they've just been to the shop, which accounts for:
1. their presence.
2. their motion and
3. the difference in the scene.

The same scene with a major difference: Someone in motion with a large silken canopy attached to them. The difference in the scene is the person but there are differences which can't be attached by narrative. The silken canopy. The downward motion.

1400. Richard II imprisoned, standing in a high tower in Pontefract castle. He has neither the nous nor the knowledge to attach a narrative to the difference in the scene before him and must invent.

Me standing in the same place today. I can attach a narrative because I have 600 years more knowledge to draw upon. Which makes me more sophisticated.

I'll bet you're really glad you posted this eh? Elsol? Hello? Anybody?

 

[damppanties]

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I'll bet you're really glad you posted this eh? Elsol? Hello? Anybody?

No wonder you and Charley understand each other perfectly.

 

[Guest]

Several salient points to what I've been trying to tell you lot for years plus extra interesting tidbits. (I know what a bit is but what's a tid? Tid, tid, tid, tid, tid.) Anyway.


I'll bet you're really glad you posted this eh? Elsol? Hello? Anybody?

I just want to hear more about tids.

 

[impressive]

Yes, yes. We write between the lines so that those less blessed don't have to read between them.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I don't know about more evolved, maybe it's just our iPod, built on top of the eight-track, used better quality parts.