Whether it be movies, books, oral tradition. What is it we humans love so much about fictional tales?

  • Ech@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    For whatever reason, our brains developed the inclination/compulsion to imagine scenarios which greatly improved our odds of survival in the wild. In a biological sense, I figure stories and the like trigger that reward center in a way. Why people like different stories would come down to brain chemistry.