As I was reading, I was thinking about a comparison between money and gravity. Money is a useful story only because it is believed. Money works because we all accept that it does. If we did not, it would stop working. Collective human choice therefore creates reality. Collective human choice has no impact on gravity (nor on genetic coding). Earthly gravity requires no collective human agreement to be real, but we may still need to be convinced of it's reality.
I wonder if that this means stories are simply a way of creating (or trying to create) an alignment of collective human choice. If so, two questions arise for me: (1) question for me becomes why do some stories work and others do not (this is something you explored earlier in the series if not quite in this; (2) in knowledge is there a category difference between things that required collective human agreement on the story to be true and things which operate effectively irrespective of collective human agreement. This is clearly too big for my brain, so over to you.
Good questions. Neither likely has a straightforward answer. On the second, the short answer is yes but I don't think there is a sharp line. Will come back to them in future posts.
As I was reading, I was thinking about a comparison between money and gravity. Money is a useful story only because it is believed. Money works because we all accept that it does. If we did not, it would stop working. Collective human choice therefore creates reality. Collective human choice has no impact on gravity (nor on genetic coding). Earthly gravity requires no collective human agreement to be real, but we may still need to be convinced of it's reality.
I wonder if that this means stories are simply a way of creating (or trying to create) an alignment of collective human choice. If so, two questions arise for me: (1) question for me becomes why do some stories work and others do not (this is something you explored earlier in the series if not quite in this; (2) in knowledge is there a category difference between things that required collective human agreement on the story to be true and things which operate effectively irrespective of collective human agreement. This is clearly too big for my brain, so over to you.
Good questions. Neither likely has a straightforward answer. On the second, the short answer is yes but I don't think there is a sharp line. Will come back to them in future posts.