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Tag: Fiction

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Sat
Nov 16th
2019
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Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction

Like sympathy, empathy derives from the Greek root pathos meaning “to endure or to undergo.”  It was coined in 1909 by a psychologist at Cornell University, Edward Bradford Titchner, who suggested the term as a translation of the German Einfühlung.
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Sat
Oct 15th
2022
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Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Coding, Fiction, Metafiction – the Parcellation of What Isn’t There

The humanities deal with the manipulation of ideas. Ideas can be encoded, metabolized, and contribute to cultural evolution. What roles do cultural memes – be they fact, factoid, or fiction – play in what goes on. Does fiction provide any insight into this complex dynamic?… read more »

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