The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.
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The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.
It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.
Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.
I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.
Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible for a writer.
When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.
People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.
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