Value of Thought & Story
Thoughts are stories or narrative. They connect in a pattern events which happen.
But there are zillions of different stories, each of which will #RingTrue, and will explain the same context or set of events.

Well, i say, the ones which best predict are the valuable ones. It seems to me the primary usefulness of thoughts lies in their ability to predict before the fact … rather than in their ability to explainin or describe after the fact.
#thought #story #narrative #predicting #PredictEvents #value #values #predict #prediction
But there are zillions of different stories, each of which will #RingTrue, and will explain the same context or set of events.
( Facts #underdetermine #stories )

So how should we pick which stories to tell … and to live ?

Well, i say, the ones which best predict are the valuable ones. It seems to me the primary usefulness of thoughts lies in their ability to predict before the fact … rather than in their ability to explainin or describe after the fact.
#thought #story #narrative #predicting #PredictEvents #value #values #predict #prediction
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- stories
- RingTrue
- value
- values
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