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Dunbar is an anthropologist at the University College of London, who wrote a paper on Co-Evolution Of Neocortex Size, Group Size And Language In Humans where he hypothesizes: " ... there is a cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships, that this limit is a direct function of relative neoc... See more
Christopher Allen • The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
Like Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence, authors trick readers into doing most of the imaginative work. Reading is often seen as a passive act: we lie back and let writers pipe joy into our brains. But this is wrong. When we experience a story, our minds are churning, working hard.
Jonathan Gottschall • The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
As Jonathan Gottschall says in The Storytelling Animal, ‘We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.’
Louise Willder • Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
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Galen Strawson • Article
the ratings increased with the number of mindstates (jokes that involve several protagonists are funnier than those that involve only one) up to five mindstates, but after that they quickly became less and less funny. It seems that when there are more than five minds involved people just cannot get their head around (yet another metaphor) the point
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