tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6590358285673767171.post5701442455915742935..comments2023-05-28T17:47:26.943-07:00Comments on A Nice Place To Live: Transportation, Persuasion, and the Construction of DisbeliefAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064363064872625529noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6590358285673767171.post-8892950558134072272013-11-30T14:53:28.665-08:002013-11-30T14:53:28.665-08:00Perhaps to avoid self-plagiarism you might have to...Perhaps to avoid self-plagiarism you might have to remove the blog post? I don't know. Anyway, at least it's something to keep in mind going forward. :)Brian Tomasikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10510289096715716609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6590358285673767171.post-35261947571053486282013-11-29T15:48:06.687-08:002013-11-29T15:48:06.687-08:00I have no problem contributing to Wikipedia but I ...I have no problem contributing to Wikipedia but I don't want to risk being accused of plagiarism or self-plagiarism.<br /><br />I think reading fiction does more good than harm but I don't think it's net better than reading non-fiction. But it depends what we're reading.<br /><br />There are a lot of benefits to reading fiction that one doesn't get from reading academic essays - I cover those in my post, The Psychology of Narrative Fiction. You're probably right that most of the benefits of fiction can also be acquired from memoirs and interviews though. I hadn't thought about that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08064363064872625529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6590358285673767171.post-73319861675006392442013-11-29T01:55:37.372-08:002013-11-29T01:55:37.372-08:00This is an important piece, Michael! Many of the p...This is an important piece, Michael! Many of the paragraphs would be suitable as part of a Wikipedia article -- have you considered <a href="http://www.utilitarian-essays.com/wikipedia.html" rel="nofollow">adding them there</a> for a much wider audience? Or do you need ownership of this material for your thesis?<br /><br />I've tended not to read fiction because I feel like there's so much true stuff to read, why would I need to read false things? Most of the benefits of literature -- getting into other people's heads, learning about social norms, etc. -- can be acquired from memoirs, news stories, social interactions, interviews, etc.<br /><br />Hypothesis generation <i>is</i> important, and insofar as fiction is a form of doing that, it's valuable. But maybe the human brain is not so good at reading extensive hypotheses without believing them.Brian Tomasikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10510289096715716609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6590358285673767171.post-74473097446169961692013-11-14T18:38:22.913-08:002013-11-14T18:38:22.913-08:00Yeah, those categories roughly parallel the periph...Yeah, those categories roughly parallel the peripheral/central distinction. Narrative devices are tailor-made to create flow experiences and two characteristics of flow experiences are (1) a loss of self-consciousness and (2) the forgetting of one's environment and complete submergence in the activity at hand. Both those things probably lead to System 1 taking over the role of correctly storing information.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08064363064872625529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6590358285673767171.post-24732054565289579102013-11-14T17:05:35.526-08:002013-11-14T17:05:35.526-08:00An important note here may be the implicit/explici...An important note here may be the implicit/explicit discrepancy (Kahneman). <br /><br />Though we may not consciously believe fiction to be true, maybe it's affecting out expectations implicitly... outside our awareness.Richiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11756727336947163186noreply@blogger.com