narrative

A narrative is a plausible, partial, and distorted expression used as a model for how an aspect of reality works and used to gain understanding of it in order to relate to it in the future.

narratives are one of the main medium of communication between humans, the main drivers of the direction of modern society and the main drivers of human lives (identification by a narrative)

narrative as tools are innate of humans and fundamental to generate certainty, but the dynamics of modern society have transformed narratives in weapons to defend constructs of objective truth justice and rightfulness.

narratives can't be objective truths (fallacy of narrative as truth), they are abstractions and therefore highly compressed information.

narratives are at the top of the high level minformation abstractions, being the most compressed form of minformation that humans have.

The compression quality of narratives is used by the mind-body system to compress memory as narrative, so instead of remembering all the sensory patterns of an event, we can remember instead just a "description"

narrative can exist without language inside oneself.

narratives are mostly composed of conceptual abstractions and other narratives and its projections (using language) are exclusively made of those.

As opposed to conceptual abstraction, narrative may not have a defined meaning unit pointer but, all its projections have the potentiality of being addressable.

narratives used for communication require the use of language, and when doing so, narratives are further compressed due to language discreteness.

narratives are the only part of the minformation abstraction spectrum that can be expressed in natural language and written language.

A story is a narrative with the intent of being memetic.

narratives as minformation are fuzzy, but its projections using natural language are always linear and the content of any linear medium of communication.

As any abstraction in the minformation abstraction spectrum, a narrative fundamental purpose is to meet a set of the subject's needs, although most of the time the correlation is indirect.

Because narratives are highly complex models of reality, its intent is mostly to meet the certainty need by attempting to create certainty by predicting the future.

For immediate experiential reality, narratives are really bad at assessing the weight of a potential outcome (unweighted distortion) compared to perceptual abstraction, but are much better forecasting long-term prospectives.

example: If a physical object is thrown toward a human subject, the human intuitive reasoning is extremely good at guessing the time and the position (weights) that the object will have when reaches it, and can therefore grab it in the air. It can do so with a marginal energy expenditure due to all sensory receptors and internal systems being extremely tuned to navigate and forecast the physical quantity of reality. If the human subject had to react to the same event, but was exposed instead to a narrative describing the event like "An object of X mass is approaching you at Y speed and Z direction" the physical object will probably crash against the subject due to the lack of accuracy and the energy cost of extegration and integration of the narrative.

example: A narrative can express with relatively high certainty extremely complex events like "the grocery is open" or "there will be a solar eclipse tomorrow" at the cost of all its conceptual abstraction (word)s being extremely ambiguos. Using perceptual abstraction it will be impossible for a human to predict any of these events.

There is extreme availability bias around the accuracy of a narrative due to counterfactual narrativization and due to the fact that we only forecast the events that are stable enough to be able to create a narrative around.

narratives limits humans the experience of the full range of reality that they could perceive as its intrinsic quality is the one of compressing and therefore filtering the qualitys of reality that the human mind-body system have assessed as unnecessary for meeting its needs.

The lack of awareness of fallacy of narrative as truth give rise to beliefs, abstraction blindness and expired narratives which they all detrimental to the human well-being and are the source of most of human conflicts.

nondual states of consciousness enable to experience further qualitys of reality due to the lack of narratives.