Humans Are Storytelling Apes

Human beings are homo narrans, the storytelling ape, the only animal in all of creation that survives by creating a conceptualized self, an “I” apart from the flesh and blood creature, to help it navigate through the world. To cope with mystery, we create story, and realizing that our stories are not us is a watershed moment in self-realization. How are we changed by this recognition? How do live without our fictions? What do we see when we look in the mirror?
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