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Simulation, stories, and fictional worlds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2022

Patrick Colm Hogan Open the ORCID record for Patrick Colm Hogan [Opens in a new window]
Patrick Colm Hogan*
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Department of English, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-4025, USA Patrick.hogan@uconn.edu; https://english.uconn.edu/person/patrick-hogan/
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Abstract

The authors explain our attraction to strange, literary places as resulting from our attraction to strange places in real life. I believe this is correct and important. The aim of the following commentary is to show that their main conclusion is closely related to – even (retrospectively) predictable from – the operation of simulation and the consequences of that operation for storytelling.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e285
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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