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The science of fiction

The science of fiction — Studies test whether reading fiction works as a sort of flight simulator for piloting social situations, and it turns out that it does. “Fiction is a simulation that runs on the software of our minds.”

Posted on January 13, 2009 at 9:55 am in Elsewhere · comment

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