HOMO NARRANS FINGENS
SOBRE A NATUREZA DA NOSSA APTIDÃO COM A FICÇÃO
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https://doi.org/10.5380/rel.v111i1.98130Abstract
This paper presents the current discussion on whether our aptitude for narrative fictionalization is a natural adaptation or whether it has another nature (exaptationist, technological). The background question is whether our species has perhaps not just survived the peculiar counterfactuality of fiction, but whether fiction has helped our species to survive. Fostering a critical stance, this proposal analyzes the conceptual assumptions about fiction involved in this discussion, as well as some obstacles to adaptationist hypotheses. Currently, our aptitude for fiction is by default treated as an evolutionary byproduct or exaptation. Perhaps it may be useful to explore such aptitude conceptually as technological.
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