The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion which is encoded in the details.
故事是同理心的机器。与逻辑或理性相比,故事是关于情感的,这些情感被编码在细节中。
"I don't believe in happy endings. Life doesn't have them, so why should literature?"
Evolutionary psychology is not about what's unchangeable in human nature, but about what was adaptive in our ancestral environment.