I'm not a fan of fiction books.

Fiction relies on made-up characters, plots, and metaphors to explore aspects of reality and human nature.

I find it much more fun to learn the core ideas presented directly.

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Sometimes, I think to myself that even the self is just made up of narratives we tell ourselves and others.  

I think it's beautiful because it leaves a lot of room for us to make something of it.

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Narrative good. 
Narrative also “real” in a way that it does itself provide downward causal pressure*. 

(within the substrate it “runs on” →  social systems)

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↑ ref for above statement: Snowden, 2024.
timestamp: https://youtu.be/noYI9l7zB9I?si=U2uA28rd3kN1izNw&t=287

"...concepts like narrative in human beings actually have material reality, they exist, they create downward causality..."

Unpacking his new and emerging presentation of "new materialism" as he weaves it together with complexity theory.  His approach exploring "an alternative to 'strategy' based on understanding the present, not trying to anticipate the future.*"

* foundational quote this is based on from Seneca: [paraphrased by Snowden]: "we can know the present, but the future is uncertain."