Reality fundamentally is a high entropy system - higher entropy means more information is needed to describe the system - it also represents the minimum number of bits required to send that information. Stories are lossy compressions of reality

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Then you think of the sender (tx) and the receiver (tx) and the channel its sent over (culture, personal, nation, language etc) and you need stories and memes that are universal enough to survive the signal noise / packet loss / data loss - and it makes sense why universally understandable stories spread (thanks Shannon)